1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color persian mare and that face

and that face

which I purchased from a seller who attained them as part of a lot of Asian antiques

Most measure 3 inches long

which I imagine is what spurred its creation to begin with

from their perfectly parted jet black hair

1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color persian mare and that faceA 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,