Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet 1940s boxes silver moon behind it

silver moon behind it

and all of them pretty sweet I think

lined with silky purple-brown fabric

My heart started beating fast when I found this one

Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet 1940s boxes silver moon behind itThis 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