Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet antique astronomical with the people and animals

with the people and animals especially soulful--this girl and deer a perfect case in point

The reverse side is blank

with one big eye looking  straight at us

or other visible flaws on the porcelain

Otherwise it is fully in tact

Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet antique astronomical with the people and animalsThis 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