Scarce, Wonderful, Much Worn and Torn 1844 New National Primer with Hand-sewn Repair Everywhere lemon yellow Backing is some sort of

Backing is some sort of composite /dense cardboard material

Nice scarf too

unfurling across and down the pages one after the next in complex multiplication and division problems that remind one how nice it is to now have a calculator

a precious thing--this one with its original back

painted a similar gray

Scarce, Wonderful, Much Worn and Torn 1844 New National Primer with Hand-sewn Repair Everywhere lemon yellow Backing is some sort ofThis one is quite a tattered state, no great surprise for a paper cover reader 180+ plus years old, really, and one which was clearly very much read and studied. What makes it especially beautiful to me though in addition to its marvelous engravings of insects and fishes, birds and objects, clocks and presidents and historic events including the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill are the hand stitched mends repairing tears to most every page, and