SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases beautiful doll Incredible

Incredible

which I especially love for the pips (the lush red and arching sides of these diamonds make me swoon

but maybe just as pets

4" long x 7/8" wide x 1/8" thick

SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases beautiful doll IncredibleIt's been a bit since I find a nice penmanship practice notebook I think in part because I've gotten pickier about the ones that I like! This one, kept by a Harriet Humphries, is undated, but I've looked at enough of these to believe it is mid 1800s, with plain blue paper cover and plain laid paper pages bound with string. Typical spreads feature a shorter repeated phrase in larger lettering on one side, and a longer repeated sentence on the other. I