1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color persian mare so in make do fashion

so in make do fashion turned to this small Baptist Question Book on International Bible Lessons instead

and that face

It feels rather like a modernist's take on the kitschy charm necklace/bracelet

with a few scattered tiny holes

1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color persian mare so in make do fashionA 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,