Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book small fan These are very rare and

These are very rare and highly collectible

which I am only noticing in detail photos

There are a total of 19 pieces on 10 pages with all of the pages except one having a work on each side

which though fairly light in weight feels substantial

I'm pretty certain this is a 20th century piece made for the tourist trade

Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book small fan These are very rare andI've had a number of British earlyish 19th century penmanship practice notebooks in the shop but this is the first American one, of a Jacob A. Paul I believe, of Ghent, NY, dated 1838. And it is quite different from the British in construction with a simple un dyed pulp paper cover, hand stitched binding, and then pages of various colors inside pink, green, yellow, some quite brilliant in tone. And no fraktur type headers here just page after page