1870 - Payson, Dunton & Scribner's International System of Penmanship in Fifteen Numbers, Revised and Improved (Volume Number 6) "New Brunswick School Series"

Wraps, 6.5 x 8.25 inches, [24] pages. Near Fine with mild discoloration. OCLC records 2 series holdings, dated 1880. Handsome typographic publisher's catalog on the rear wrap. A rare example from the Payson, Dunton & Scribner's International System, produced in 15 books. Printed on the cover: '"New Brunswick School Series" Prescribed by the Board of Education'; latter books in the series appear to have been targeted to women and "Ladies" writing and produced "on thick cream wove paper." This is number 6 in the series, self-described as "Sentences, mostly Proverbs, condensed style." Partially completed by Lottie McLean of Waterville, Carleton County, New Brunswick (Canada). The first 20 pages are entirely completed, and a single line on the final page: "A sample of my running hand penmanship terminating book 6." The pen work is notably inconsistent, including a few experiments in style reflective of a slightly restless young student. 

Practice specimens include: Education is the ornament of the rich and the riches of the poor. Speaking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.  Other men are lenses through which we read our own mind. Many complain of want of memory but none of want of discretion. Plus, fun facts about Neptune and Uranus!