Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet antique astronomical On the pages with larger

On the pages with larger and darker text

and especially those with loop handles like this one

with one big eye looking  straight at us

which seems perhaps a protector or protectress of the figures

Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet antique astronomical On the pages with largerThis 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