1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! incised text winding its way up and

winding its way up and around the R from its cross-hatched pot below would be the perfect thing to hang in the room of a child with a first name starting with "R

I find the palette extraordinary

but structurally sound and the sort of thing that one should not be precious about to begin with

6 3/4" long

1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! incised text winding its way up andClearly I've got words and language on my brain this week plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences