Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet misshapen glass plus several pages of alphabets

plus several pages of alphabets in various fonts at the front

though it would also make a good serving bowl or catch-all

I just love his face in profile

)-- so I find the relative concision and smaller size of this one just right

with an arrow which at least in my mind suggests that "there" might be quite far away

Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet misshapen glass plus several pages of alphabetsThis is a super rare one from what I can tell, published in Boston in 1813, making it a very early example of penmanship instruction, too. I was sold as soon as a saw the blue paper with cut and pasted letterpress printed title, but there are plenty of delights inside, including the fact that it was once possessed by a Persis Rice (what a great name) who wrote her name both in ink and pencil on the inside cover and dated it 1817. (I found a record of