Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations lavender so perhaps Morning Star is

so perhaps Morning Star is the name of the stove

and the front snaps closed in a most satisfying way

A few months ago I found a wonderful Japanese cat hand-puppet (which immediately sold) that was clearly made by the same maker as this terrific clown

not one line more or less than there needs to be

Personally I've really come to embrace such flaws on pieces like this

Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations lavender so perhaps Morning Star isJust 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