Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook labeled 86 inches long x 2"

86 inches long x 2" wide

which looks rather as if wrapped in a clear band-aid

17 15/16” x 18 1/16”

But even if one reads her eyes as closed

with a patina beginning to develop on the dry wood surface

Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook labeled 86 inches long x 2"Another old penmanship notebook, because I can't pass them by, and find them all interesting in different ways. This early one, with thick handmade paper cover, is all about the repetition of single words over and over again the outcome of which I find quite satisfying, formally and conceptually, especially when the word is, say "runninghand"! (Runninghand is a style of penmanship emerging in the late 1700s. in which letters are slanted and the words