One penmanship book entitled Harper's Writing Books: Symmetrical Penmanship with Marginal Drawing Lessons, for Schools and Families, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1868. The subtitle reads: School and Family Series: Writing and Drawing, In Ten Numbers, Number 5. This penmanship practice book is 24 pages in length. Across the top of each page are the letters, phrases or sentences which are to be copied in the lined spaces below. Along the outer vertical margin of each page is a shaded block of figures and drawing exercises to be copied. On the front cover, the title surrounds several images and vignettes of people writing and drawing. The centered vignette shows three students seated at a table, writing. Instructional text, including specific directions for Book 5, are printed on the inside of the front cover, and continue on to the inside of the back cover. The back cover also features instructions for using and copying the additional exercises found in the margins of the book. None of the exercises have been completed.
Issues of:
Art in America: an illustrated quarterly magazine (Springfield, MA: edited by Jean Lipman): Volume 32, no. 4, October 1944
Arts & Decoration New York: Hewitt Publishing Corporation (imprint varies): Volume 10, no. 4, February 1919; Volume 10, no. 5, March 1919; Volume 10, no. 6, April 1919; Volume 11, nos. 1-6, May-October 1919; Volume 12, nos. 1-5, November 1919-March 1920; Volume 13, no. 2, July 1920; Volume 13, no. 3, August 1920; Volume 15, no. 2, June 1921
Eight issues of The International Studio (New York: John Lane Company): Volume 44, no. 173, July 1911; Volume 44, no. 174, August 1911; Volume 45, nos. 178-180, December 1911-February 1912; Volume 46, nos. 180 and 181, March and April 1912; Volume 86, no. 358, March 1927.
