Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush and some on the body

and some on the body too

A little glare in a few photos

The splint ash visible on the bottom of the basket has been dyed a blue green

which is less comprehensive and less interesting (though very pretty) than the bulk of it

so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush and some on the bodyI've rarely met a penmanship practice notebook I didn't like, but think this is an especially nice one, filled by a Henry Fisher in 1869, under to watch of his tutor W. J. Sleiffer and I believe from Pennsylvania. What I especially love about this one is the repetition of consistently good, juicy words, and especially the pairs of words side by side, usually two to a page: Valentine Vermilion; Yearning Yawning ; Machine Manikin; Teaching Treachery,