I 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 writing, which was meant to have a perfect 52 degree slant! One page per letter of the alphabet here, all completed by a Raymond Bailey, who signed his name to the front.

8 1/2" x 7" and in very very good condition.