Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook hand-carved jointed figure I recently scored a whole

I recently scored a whole bunch---a mixed lot of dyed and undyed--and have divided them up into groups of fifty or so

this one with a more dense and saturated concentration of elongated triangular forms

as our subject looks not entirely ready or eager to have have her photograph taken

and eyes remaining

with clean

Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook hand-carved jointed figure I recently scored a wholeI continue to find it difficult to resist a completed penmanship notebook, in part just for the pleasure of seeing all these carefully formed letters, but also for the selection of words and phrases chosen for instruction which, like the manner of lettering itself, changed significantly over time and reveals a whole lot about the values of the times. This booklet, with a 1900 copyright, proscribes a system of "Vertical Writing", replacing Spencerian