Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet misshapen glass Dating from the 1910s and

Dating from the 1910s and made of bakelite and natural bristles

plus several pages of alphabets in various fonts at the front

with two ribbon bows on the spine

Photos do not do this justice

he's in pretty good shape

Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet misshapen glass Dating from the 1910s andThis is a super rare one from what I can tell, published in Boston in 1813, making it a very early example of penmanship instruction, too. I was sold as soon as a saw the blue paper with cut and pasted letterpress printed title, but there are plenty of delights inside, including the fact that it was once possessed by a Persis Rice (what a great name) who wrote her name both in ink and pencil on the inside cover and dated it 1817. (I found a record of