Penmanship
MAY 29, 2009
I found these exercises in penmanship in a dusty hardbound edition of the Farmers Manual, published in 1895.
They trend from the ornamental to the bizarre.
They trend from the ornamental to the bizarre.
From the book:
'The copies of the penmanship department are from the pens fo the best penmen in America. They should be carefully studied and used as copies for practice. A few months of faithful work will make a good penman of the the poorest writer.'
'The copies of the penmanship department are from the pens fo the best penmen in America. They should be carefully studied and used as copies for practice. A few months of faithful work will make a good penman of the the poorest writer.'
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