Comley's Spelling and Reading Book, 1853, with Hand-colored Engravings, Cut Paper Letters, and Good Words natural history with full-page black and white

with full-page black and white images interspersed throughout

Original Random Industries sticker on the underside of one of them

original to vessel

With watercolor ground and ink drawn details

And then so simply beautiful as a parachute opening to slow one's fall

Comley's Spelling and Reading Book, 1853, with Hand-colored Engravings, Cut Paper Letters, and Good Words natural history with full-page black and whiteA lovely old speller John Comly's Spelling and Reading Book with Notes for Parents and Teachers, published by Lippincott, Granbo & Co Philadelphia, copyright 1842, this copy 1853. Here with most of the engravings hand colored, a handful of cut paper capital letters found inside, and some nice handwriting on the endpages. I'm such a sucker for these old readers, and this I think one embodies exactly why! With good lists of words throughout, which