Clearly I've got words and language on my brain this week--plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine--so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand-colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences such as "adustion, congestion, digestion, admixtion, combustion" or "fecundity, rotundity, commodity, absurdity" etc etc. in sequence. Plus lots of good sentences incorporating them and other lessons. And several illustrations colored by the original owner toward the end. 

7" x 4 1/4" x 1/2". 168 pages. Wear to the spine on the backside but overall pretty good condition, pages clean, and holding together fine.