$461
Copy Books, Six, 19th Century, British and American. Four copy books commercially produced by printers, with printed covers, all single signature quarto: London: Edward Langley, [n.d.], cover printed with an oval woodcut showing monkeys running a barber shop, printed within a type ornament border, eighteen leaves, inscribed with a prose text manuscript, a school assignment on Cato, final leaf with penmanship exercises, 7 1/4 x 6 in.; another with pink covers, and blue text leaves, Boston: B.B. Mussey & Co., [n.d.], with an elaborately printed cover depicting Clio and a knight with a short story about greatness using the metaphor of cutting a quill well with one's sword, back cover with publisher's advertisement, filled with Joseph Lovrien's of Springfield penmanship exercises, ten leaves, one half torn away, other leaves removed, 8 x 6 3/4 in.; Foster's Elementary Copy-Books , Boston: Perkins, Marvin, & Col, 1835, covers printed inside and out, front and back, with penmanship instructions, each page printed at the top with a white-on-black writing example (an inspirational/moralistic phrase) and blank lines beneath (filled in by hand in this copy), in the first half, the examples are larger, sixteen leaves, 8 x 6 1/2 in.; American Writing Book , Boston: Reynolds & Col, [c. 1854], front cover with a scene of the Arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, small woodcut portraits of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren in the four corners, all w Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16
