Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook eyes on stand attached along the left edge

attached along the left edge

and seeming as if about to take a bite out of the sun

like new condition and the colors super bright

and of a nice scale at nearly a foot long

I have enough French to get the gist of the text at left

Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook eyes on stand attached along the left edgeI 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