Location Published: Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Knowles & Maxim, (1884).: (1884).
Book Condition: Good
Categories: Calligraphy
- Oblong octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 11-5/8 inches wide. Brown cloth titled and decorated in gilt within a black floral decorated outer frame on the front cover. The covers are rubbed, bumped and stained. 79 pages, illustrated with full-page samples of penmanship styles and numerous full-page plates in color and black & white illustrating examples of drawing and tracing instructions and styles of flourishes. The hinges are cracked and there are black ink stains to the lower front edge of the front endpaper and pastedown. There is a small black ink stain to the eighth page and large blue ink droplets staining the ninth page which portrays a "Scale Showing How Much to Slant Letters". There is some occasional foxing with light dampstaining to the lower front edge and bottom edge of the pages. Good.
Among the instructions and penmanship samples are depictions of "Principles and the Capitals A, N, M, T, F and K Thoroughly Analyzed and Explained", "All the Small Letters Thoroughly Analyzed and Explained", "Real Written Copies by W.H. Lyons - Spencerian Style". Other images depict "Exercises in Flourishing", "The Parts of Birds for Practice", line drawings with flourishes of deer, horses, a lion, one titled "Real Pen-Work Stag and Dogs" another titled "Real Pen-Work Horse and Cupid", and sketches of children.