1886 Handwritten Notes - GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, PENMANSHIP

Above is the complete ink inscribed front

board title, year from paste-down.

1886

Ink and pencil inscribed notes from a teaching school.

Contains five clippings pasted in and two full mounted plates illustrating penmanship on front and back paste-downs.

Also included are six loose items (see below for details).

CONTENTS:

Front paste-down:

Mounted plate with four illustrations and text regarding proper position, pen-holding, etc., regarding penmanship. Copyright 1886 A. S. Barnes & Co.

Front free endpaper notes

Geography outline notes and clippings

(pages 3 to 23)

History outline notes and one clipping

(pages 50 to 75)

List of names

(pages 86 and 87)

Penmanship outline notes

(pages 91 to 98)

Back paste-down:

Mounted plate with illustrations of handwriting titled, Barnes’ National System of Penmanship.

Loose Items:

1. One 10” x 8” lined sheet folded twice with notes on teaching drawing written on one side of Oneida Mills watermarked paper.

2. and 3. Two 9” x 5.50” lined sheets with notes on teaching drawing written on one side each of Royal Court Linen (with Crown) watermarked paper.

4. One 5” x 2” slip with a railroad question on one side and a list of railroads on the other.

5. One 6” x 4.50” lined and age toned sheet with notes and numbers

6. One 5.75” x 3.25” blue card with the following printed on one side:

The Commonwealth, E. E. Hilliard, Editor, $1 a Year, Scotland Neck, N. C.

A first-class family newspaper. Best reading for the home circle. Admitted one of the purest secular papers in the country. Its moral teaching alone is worth the price.

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BOOK DESCRIPTION:

9.50” x 7.50” x 0.50”

11 ounces, 100 pages

Clothbound with boards that are well attached, rubbed, scuffed and moderately worn at edges; backstrip has a snag at tail. Binding is tight, no loose, missing, bent or torn pages; page edges are red. Leaves are blue lined and hand numbered in pencil at top fore corners except for front and back free endpapers. There is some offset associated with loose items 5 and 6; no age tone, foxing or fading.

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This book is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne, antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.