Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck the first thing I thought

the first thing I thought when I saw them was of old optometrist signs in the form of spectacles

ink on lined paper

I think this drawing is FANTASTIC

The yellow bottom suggests Zaneware/Zanesville but no mark and I'm not entirely sure

or to just hang from a nail or hook on the wall

Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck the first thing I thoughtAnother old penmanship notebook, because I can't pass them by, and find them all interesting in different ways. This early one, with thick handmade paper cover, is all about the repetition of single words over and over again the outcome of which I find quite satisfying, formally and conceptually, especially when the word is, say "runninghand"! (Runninghand is a style of penmanship emerging in the late 1700s. in which letters are slanted and the words