1853 Byerly's New American Spelling Book with Watercolor Bird and Animal Engravings clever painting Putting it back together once

Putting it back together once taken apart takes some thought

just right for being surrounded by books

7 3/4" across at jingles

(But what an amazing crop of gray yarn hair he has

and the other I have no idea

1853 Byerly's New American Spelling Book with Watercolor Bird and Animal Engravings clever painting Putting it back together onceAnother week, another 19th century school speller, because I can simply not resist a good one, and especially not one with a watercolor bird on an end page! This one, Byerly's New American Spelling Book, was published by M. Polock, Philadelphia, in 1853. I purchased it from a wonderful dealer in PA, who shares my love of naive fraktur style watercolors, and indeed this tri color bird looks very Pennsylvania to me. With wonderful engravings too,