Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations Grenfell Mission craft crownlike hat with long flaps

crownlike hat with long flaps

Perhaps used as a trade sign of sorts by a knife maker

5 1/2" across the back if measured straight across (not on a curve)

so finely done

3 3/4" l x approx 2 1/4" in diameter

Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations Grenfell Mission craft crownlike hat with long flapsJust a lovely little book, published by Willis P. Hazard, Philadelphia, and quite a rare one from what I can tell, finding only a couple of records of other copies held in library collections. There was a second edition published in 1862, but I believe this is the first edition. Curiously (though written in the first person, so he might be the narrator) Harry is only mentioned once as a blind old man, who is patient and does not complain, but gives