Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook mosaic seersucker to chinz

seersucker to chinz

This I think is a very old one

(Originating as as a literary riddle game in 18th century France

Since finding a few of them recently

with screw clasp

Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook mosaic seersucker to chinzI 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