Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush so this old drawing won

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

with beautiful jointed corners

and some on the body too

with lovely handwritten text interspersed throughout with delicate little drawings diagramming the reproductive parts of various plants

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

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush so this old drawing wonI'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,