Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings hand thrown plate This sweet thing

This sweet thing

my very favorite I've found

whose hand-painted face and colorful outfit (and spiky hands with painted nails

and these would be good pretty much anywhere

Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings hand thrown plate This sweet thingI could spend way too many hours opening old schoolbooks in search of drawings and have to stop myself, but finding one's like this makes it hard! The book is "The Normal Fourth Reader" published in 1878, and my guess is that Edward J. Brown was its first owner as his name is all over it, included ink stamped in two places, so I'd think the drawings date to around then. And, found in Hampton, NH, where Brown lived, it seems that it never left home! 7