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Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship
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One fragment of a penmanship book entitled Real Pen Work: Self Instructor in Penmanship, published by Knowles & Maxim, ca. 1884. This piece is the binding only; the interior pages are missing. The boards are bound in brown cloth, with green cloth spine and corners. The title, which is in a decorative frame, is stamped in gold on the front cover. The back cover is illustrated with a horseshoe-shaped design that surrounds another line-based design. The publication information is taken from a bibliographic record in OCLC.
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Nashville Institute of Penmanship and Art
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Image of a birds, plants, and butterflies rendered in ornamental penmanship in an advertisement for the Nashville Institute of Penmanship and Art taught by Crandle & Webb, Proprietors.
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Child's First Book. Drawing Series. Self Instructor, No. 1
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One drawing book entitled Child's First Book. Drawing Series. Self Instructor, No. 1, by Josiah Holbrook, published by H.H. Hawley & Co., Utica, New York, and J.H. Mather & Co., Hartford, copyright 1846. The book contains 22 numbered pages of instructional text, a preface (pp. 2-4), and several pages of images for copying. Stated in the "Directions to Parents and Teachers" is the following: "With the Book before them, and a slate and pencil in their hands, they become 'self instructors'. As the pupil advances, paper may take the place of a slate, used with a lead pencil, pen, or both." The images are divided up into labeled categories: "Geometry; Containing Vessels; Household Utensils; Cutting Instruments; Tools; Articles of Dress, &c.; Agricultural Implements; House, Boat, &c.; Animals; Human Figures; Primary Solids; Diagonals of Squares; Mensuration; Circumscribed & Inscribed Figures; Regular Solids; and Geography." The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are blank.
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Practical Geometry
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A.MS. 38 leaves 4to. A note of presentation and page headings in ornamental pen work, in another hand; with inscription on the flyleaf: Master Ruskin, Jan. 21, 1833.
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Historic alphabets & initials, woodcut & ornamental
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"This volume covers ten centuries of pictorial and ornamental alphabets and initials, over 2,000 decorative letters in black-and-white line cuts. It contains a wealth of copyright-free materials and ideas for contemporary artists. The artistry of alphabetic ornamentation and printing is included here: biblical scenes, knights, martyrdoms, angels, devils, sensually robust women, fleshy children, gargoyles, birds, lambs, fishes, snakes, serpents, narrative cartoons, scenes of play and war, myths and legends, complicated and convoluted designs, floral beauty, modern geometrics, all woven and designed around letters of the alphabet ... The illustrations are arranged in chronological order beginning with an example from a tenth-century German illuminated Bible ... The book concludes with twentieth-century examples"--
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