1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue 18 pages filled front and

18 pages filled front and back

and flags to the lower corners

which was meant to have a perfect 52 degree slant

Plenty of surface chips--which seem right in conjunction with his furrowed brow--but as a whole seems pretty much indestructible

1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue 18 pages filled front andTwo antique penmanship notebooks today, because my love and quest for these never ends, each one interesting in its own way. I do believe this one, completed by a Thomas Fuller in 1857, is the first I've found with a series of misspellings though most poignantly in the repetition of "To learn to write is important, espesially [sic] well." It also includes some unusual sentences as far as my experience with these, such as "The globe on which we live is