Knowles & Maxim 1881 "Real Pen Work" Spencerian Penmanship Instruction Book penobscot basket This little notebook of sketches

This little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic--amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers

and I'm pretty fussy about the ones I like

) about their cocktails

and surrounded by a decorative pattern of tiny brass nails

9 1/4" t x 3 5/8" widest diameter

Knowles & Maxim 1881 "Real Pen Work" Spencerian Penmanship Instruction Book penobscot basket This little notebook of sketchesNow just might be the time to learn Spencerian penmanship, and this would be the ultimate guide to doing so! I've come across a few different soft covered pen work instruction guides, but this seems to be the mother of them all, including examples of elaborate Spencerian drawings of lions and eagles and Diana riding a stag which clearly spurred larger versions of the same. Plus fantastic alphabets, designs for autograph albums, instructions for making