1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color carved figure in coffin announcing one's success in solving

announcing one's success in solving the puzzle

There are a few very small chips to the surface of the body of the pot

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but I love most every detail of him head to toe

Clearly aged and worn

1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color carved figure in coffin announcing one's success in solvingA sweet and much handled old speller by William Campbell, published by Thomas Kelly, NY, 1887. Antique school books win me for many different reasons in this case it was particularly the single color plate showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors so gorgeous! (I would be very tempted to carefully cut that one out and frame it.) But also, near it, toward the back of the book, are several excellent pages of lines, angles and geometrical shapes,