Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences cast metal portrait Plus some other letters it's

Plus some other letters it's a bit hard to decipher

and then I purchased them from the seller who brought them home to Maine

I just think it's excellent looking

It measures 4 1/4" x 1 7/8" w x 1 1/4" t

but the three leather bound books here are 18th/early 19th c

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences cast metal portrait Plus some other letters it'sAs you likely know by now, I've a special weakness for penmanship practice notebooks of all sorts, for all different sorts of reasons, high among them being the specific words and phrases chosen for repetition, which take on added resonance for being written over and over again (and also tell us a lot about the times, including the values being stealthily drilled into children! ) This one, published in 1899, struck me first for the sentence "Burnt