Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook eyes on stand perhaps with some little sheep

perhaps with some little sheep grazing nearby

and of a nice scale at nearly a foot long

All steady on their bases

There is a small bit of something  adhered to the bottom right gray square that I just noticed in the photos

Raymond Bailey's c. 1900 Vertical Writing Penmanship Practice Notebook eyes on stand perhaps with some little sheepI continue to find it difficult to resist a completed penmanship notebook, in part just for the pleasure of seeing all these carefully formed letters, but also for the selection of words and phrases chosen for instruction which, like the manner of lettering itself, changed significantly over time and reveals a whole lot about the values of the times. This booklet, with a 1900 copyright, proscribes a system of "Vertical Writing", replacing Spencerian