1863 The Circus Story Book with Wonderful Graphite Drawings calligraphy practice Perhaps more loudly than any

Perhaps more loudly than any other I've had

Signed (incised) in Japanese on the underside

The molded glass shows one large and some scattered small bubbles here and there

Of substantial scale at 17 3/4" w × 24ʺ t

1863 The Circus Story Book with Wonderful Graphite Drawings calligraphy practice Perhaps more loudly than anyThis 1863 first edition "The Circus" Story Book for Boys by a Mrs. A. S. Anthony (published in Boston, found in Haverhill, MA, and the boy who drew in it lived in Newbury, which he spells as Newburay) is a rare one, which begins with two boys discovering a giant painting of marching elephants on the wall of a local barn announcing the (pre Barnum & Bailey) circus coming to town. Published by the American Tract Society, an evangelical organization