Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! tall vase and all for a dime

and all for a dime

or a basket or ring

and how the cover of her magazine reads like an abstract painting

I'm not sure the source of this antique bookplate

and it is wonderfully wonky

Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! tall vase and all for a dimeAnother really nice penmanship practice notebook, this one dated 1863 and done by Frederic Fisher, the brother I assume of Henry Fisher, whose notebook I just listed. I really like the somewhat looser handwriting in this one, done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method, and which includes word repetition, including the names of lots of cities and countries, as well as sentences: Quarrelsome boys are troublesome; Command of hand gives