Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art great objects

great objects

Pure love for this box

All as evident and documented

but plenty they could spell out without them

the other boats in the background

Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored bottle cap folk art great objectsThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over