Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings sayward This lovely blocks set is

This lovely blocks set is not entirely complete

with the mother feeling rather like a shadow of herself

I really really love the how the face on this carving is not at all what one might expect based on the rest of her

The pillowcases

The dealer I purchased it from referred to it as an onion box

Edward J. Brown's 1878 Reader, with Drawings sayward This lovely blocks set isI could spend way too many hours opening old schoolbooks in search of drawings and have to stop myself, but finding one's like this makes it hard! The book is "The Normal Fourth Reader" published in 1878, and my guess is that Edward J. Brown was its first owner as his name is all over it, included ink stamped in two places, so I'd think the drawings date to around then. And, found in Hampton, NH, where Brown lived, it seems that it never left home! 7