Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! tall vase Had I not spent a

Had I not spent a couple of years working on a farm

and is quite rare

and what appears to be a lithographed eye still on one side

It appears to be signed on the bottom of the handle but hard to read

I'm not sure the source of this antique bookplate

Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! tall vase Had I not spent aAnother really nice penmanship practice notebook, this one dated 1863 and done by Frederic Fisher, the brother I assume of Henry Fisher, whose notebook I just listed. I really like the somewhat looser handwriting in this one, done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method, and which includes word repetition, including the names of lots of cities and countries, as well as sentences: Quarrelsome boys are troublesome; Command of hand gives