A sweet and much handled old speller by William Campbell, published by Thomas Kelly, NY, 1887. Antique school books win me for many different reasons--in this case it was particularly the single color plate showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors--so gorgeous! (I would be very tempted to carefully cut that one out and frame it.) But also, near it, toward the back of the book, are several excellent pages of lines, angles and geometrical shapes, with a page of shaded geometric solids looking very much like the paper labels on early boxes of geo solid blocks I am always on the hunt for. And, surrounding these pages are a series devoted to describing shapes and colors in words, too: citrine, saffron, canary, sulfur, etc. etc. as types of yellow, for example. Plus, on the front inside cover, four handwritten lines in french, which I find pretty poignant:
je tai connice (I knew you)
je tai aimee (I loved you)
tu es disparut (you disappeared)
sans etre oublie (without being forgotten)
souvenir (memory)
7 1/2” x 5”, 154 pages. C. 1887. Much worn condition, especially covers and spine, with some tears to a few pages but the color and geo form pages are very clear. Binding holding ok.
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