Featured SINCE MANY ARE POSTING BOOKS, THOUGHT I'D JOIN THE PARADE!!!!

But with my quirky memory, am hoping I DIDN'T do this before!!!! It's a booklet on learning "Self Learning Real Pen Work and Penmanship" from 1881, and it's basically in not very good condition! However, the images inside are in decent shape! There is ONE page missing which I have not a clue what might have been on it. Was one of MY finds that I got to keep the summer DH and I worked for Mom cleaning out one of her OLD house buys......wanted to learn calligraphy!!!! I DID play with it for a while, but OH SO TIME CONSUMING!!!!! The book's been stuck away down stairs for quite some time!!! AND I have NOT a CLUE why there's SO much space between each image, if I try to reduce it, an image gets deleted!! ​

 

It's not the whole booklet, but some more of the nicer images........ ​

 

The flourishes are wonderful.

 

That is so touching. A little Victorian pamphlet for self-improvement.

Debora

 

Amazing work, Aqui, I really enjoyed seeing that, thanks.

 

Interesting how the pamphlet is 1881, but some of the images in it are 1882......??? AND it AIN'T as easy as they make it look!!!!! At least, it wasn't for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks for sharing this, @Aquitaine -- what wonderful examples there are in it!

 

Thanks for sharing, wonderful.

 

Hours of hours upon very tedious practice... like doing scales on the piano.

I knew a trucker who always signed his name in a copperplate hand. It was a laborious task and I suspect it was the only thing he could write, but I do wonder how he came to learn it that way.

 

I have a collection of a couple thousand post cards. I really collect them more for the cursive writings, something the kids nowadays think might as well be hieroglyphics, it’s so foreign to them. Your post brought me back to this cards from 1936. Love the way the address is written. The P, in Pensacola and F, in Florida. A real dying skill.

 

I don't have a photo of my book but here is the one I have, not the new one they republished but the old one 1888
https://www.fgsociety.com/dora-s-cookbook

Here is an easier one to see I think
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1888-doras-cook-book-153577436

 

And how many Tried & True recipes have you tried....so far?

 

I too love the old flourished handwriting.....used to have a lot of old documents as well with beautiful writing, and a lot of it was, I think done by men!

 

Nice -- and it is interesting that the recipient's address is in care of a beauty shop in a hotel. I looked up the hotel and found it was built in 1909 and demolished in 1993.

 

And how many Tried & True recipes have you tried....so far?
Zip, nada zero. My baking and cooking days are done and over. LOL

 

Love the old penmanship, thanks for posting!

 

I pretty much agree with you there, Pearls!!! If it weren’t for the ‘One Rise Method’ and my Kitchen Aid Mixer, I wouldn’t still be making so many loaves of Stollen!!!!

 

Aqui you are way ahead of me. I use my stove top and my microwave only. For someone who loved to cook and bake... well that ship has sailed for many reasons. I still love my cookbooks tho and probably always will.

 

From what I gather, around here, the schools aren’t even teaching Cursive!!!!! HOW BAD is THAT!!!??

 

I read somewhere that some schools are going back to teaching cursive writing. Maybe it will become a trend!