Rachel B. Walton's 1826 Grammar Book with Inscribed Plate and Two Handmade Rewards of Merit vintage tabacco box Some surface splitting on the

Some surface splitting on the face and back

hand-written in graphite: "Christmas 1917

what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground

There is a drawstring on the interior that I believe likely once exited through holes on the sides to tie on the outside

so he could live in a garden bed or just in a plant

Rachel B. Walton's 1826 Grammar Book with Inscribed Plate and Two Handmade Rewards of Merit vintage tabacco box Some surface splitting on theYou likely know I have a total weakness for early school books with the names of their one time owner beautifully inscribed inside, as is very much the case with this 1826 copy of Murray's English Grammar Simplified, published by Glazier & Co. in Hallowell, Maine, not very far from where I found it. The book itself is a rare one, but what a delight to find it not just Rachel B. Walton's name written inside, but also two rewards of merit from her