1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue with its hand-sewn pink cloth

with its hand-sewn pink cloth wrapped ferrule

or easy to add a hook on reverse

and flags to the lower corners

18 pages filled front and back

which was meant to have a perfect 52 degree slant

1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue with its hand-sewn pink clothTwo antique penmanship notebooks today, because my love and quest for these never ends, each one interesting in its own way. I do believe this one, completed by a Thomas Fuller in 1857, is the first I've found with a series of misspellings though most poignantly in the repetition of "To learn to write is important, espesially [sic] well." It also includes some unusual sentences as far as my experience with these, such as "The globe on which we live is