School Copy Book made and sold by M'Donald & Beeson, Booksellers & Stationers, No. 78 Market Street, Near the Diamond, Pittsburgh.

Initials "M.B.Y." on the cover. Oblong 8vo, [32] pages, . Very Good with moderate soil, splitting at the bottom third of the spine crease and old paper reinforcement to the upper third. M'Donald & Beeson was active in Pittsburgh ca. 1843.

28 pages with pencil drawings recognized as dutiful copies of the images by Horace Grant published in Drawing for Young Children: Containing One Hundred and Fifty Drawing Copies and Numerous Exercises.

The title was first published in 1838 (London: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge) and 1841 (New York and Boston by Charles S. and Joseph H. Francis). Copying as a means of drawing education was often criticized as failing to develop any skill, but the book argued that since children are generally feeble of "eyes, hands and minds," and "profoundly ignorant," it is more worthwhile to begin training them with the ability to copy images as a form of written language, than to "wait until they have acquired accuracy of eye, steadiness of hand, and something approaching maturity of intellect."

A great, and rare, opportunity to see the result.