1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! cat hooks with a little rust here

with a little rust here and there

I don't know what to say

I'd frame this up and hang it in the bathroom straight away

and would certainly guess they Danish or Swedish

and it looks like there were a few layers underneath it

1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! cat hooks with a little rust hereClearly I've got words and language on my brain this week plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences