Juvenilia.- English Hornbook, manuscript alphabet (in lower and upper case), vowel sounds chart, the Lord's Prayer, tear across head of text, laid in paddle-shaped leather case with handle in shape of a cross, some rubbing to extremities, head of paddle splitting, 110 x 80mm, [c.18th century]; and 2 Victorian portrait daguerreotypes framed together (3)*** A charming and unusual example of a hornbook, the cross-shaped handle being uncommon. Hornbooks were in widespread use for teaching children everything, from their alphabet and numbers to catechism and the names of animals, from the late medieval period up until the 19th century.