Wikisource has a much better scan, via the Library of Congress: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book.djvu https://en.wikisource.org/

Wikisource has a much better scan, via the Library of Congress: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book.djvu https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-.... And a transcription: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Little_Pretty_Pocket-book The Internet Archive scan is poor quality because it is from the BiM (Books in Microfilm) collection, which is expansive and a huge cultural value, but also is made up of scans of black and white microfilms which is a rather lossy way to store book scans. But it made a lot of sense before computers! The SiM (Serials in Microfilm) is really a treasure: https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm https://archive.org/details/sim_microfilm It was multiple literal truckloads of microfilm canisters, with 500 million pages of material in 27000 canisters: https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG_0586.JPG https://archive.org/details/SerialsOnMicrofilmCollection/IMG...