Charles Wilet's 1846 English Grammar Book with Drawings copper box including a bit of paint

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

and most of all very old ones like this that have lived long

and a little paint at upper left

This one was produced by the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop

Charles Wilet's 1846 English Grammar Book with Drawings copper box including a bit of paintThe latest edition in my never ending pile of old school books I couldn't resist this one Murray's English Grammar Simplified by Allen Fish, published in 1846. While I at least could learn a lot about proper English from this one, of course it the legacy of its onetime owner Charles Wilet that makes me love it, whose name appears on numerous pages, including the first inside page along with a drawing of a star. Our Charles also transformed the