Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook hand-carved jointed figure and eyes remaining

and eyes remaining

They're great for stacking but also nice for arranging just laid flat on a tabletop

as our subject looks not entirely ready or eager to have have her photograph taken

with clean

And just a marvelous patina accrued over a century and a quarter of so I believe

Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook hand-carved jointed figure and eyes remainingI continue to find it difficult to resist a completed penmanship notebook, in part just for the pleasure of seeing all these carefully formed letters, but also for the selection of words and phrases chosen for instruction which, like the manner of lettering itself, changed significantly over time and reveals a whole lot about the values of the times. This booklet, with a 1900 copyright, proscribes a system of "Vertical Writing", replacing Spencerian