OLD-TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-BOOKS - online book
An Illustrated history & description Of Schools in the 18th & 19th Centurys.
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Penman, 1824, gives these directions for writing pupils: —
The ink should be the best British ink-powder. The paper should be of the first quality, folded in a quarto form, |
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Slate, Inkstand, Writing-sand, and Ink-powder.
and stitched across the narrowest side, that the lines may be ruled the longest way of the paper. Where blank writing books, ready ruled, can be procured, they would be preferable, and of less trouble than to rule by hand. |
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