Penmanship, American

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• The Madarasz Book: The Secret of the Skill of Madarasz (Columbus, OH: Zaner-Bloser Company, 1911), by Louis Madarasz (page images at iampeth.com)
• Some early American writing books and masters / by Ray Nash. ([Hanover, N.H.?] : H & N, c1943), by Ray Nash (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (page images at iampeth.com)
• An Analytical Guide to the Art of Penmanship (c1839), by Enoch Noyes (page images at iampeth.com)
• The Art of Writing, Reduced to a Plain and Easy System, On a Plan Entirely New (Cambridge, MA: Printed for the author, c1813), by John Jenkins (page images at iampeth.com)
• The Champion Method of Practical Business Writing, by Mary L. Champion (page images at iampeth.com)
• Collection of Penmanship (1921), by C. C. Canan (page images at iampeth.com)
• Compendium of Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship, Embracing Analysis, Exercise, Review, Principle, Practice in Commercial and Ladies' Style: Book 10, For Counting House and Mercantile College Writing Classes, Proficient Students and Learners Generally, Business Forms and Ladies Styles (New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman and Co., 1866), contrib. by Platt R. Spencer (page images at iampeth.com)
• Handwriting for the Broad-Edge Pen: A Teachers' Manual (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1926), by Frances M. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Introduction to the Art of Penmanship (with an appendix on shorthand; second improved edition; Hartford: O. Cooke, 1821), by Eleazer Huntington, contrib. by Thomas Rees (page images at iampeth.com)
• La Operina (in Italian, with English translation and commentary), by Ludovico degli Arrighi, ed. by Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (zipped PDF at operina.com)
• Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship (Columbus, OH: Zaner and Bloser, c1920), by C. P. Zaner (page images at iampeth.com)
• Modern Business Penmanship (New York; Cincinnati; Chicago: American Book Company, c1903), by Edward C. Mills (page images at iampeth.com)
• New Spencerian Compendium of Penmanship (New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, & Company, c1879) (page images at iampeth.com)
• New Standard Practical Penmanship (business college edition, 1887), by Spencer Brothers (page images at iampeth.com)
• The New Zanerian Alphabets: An Instructor in Roundhand, Engrossing, Designing, Etc. (Columbus, OH: Zaner and Bloser, c1900), by C. P. Zaner (page images at iampeth.com)
• Palmer's Penmanship Budget (revised edition, 1919), by A. N. Palmer (page images at iampeth.com)
• Penmanship Made Easy (Boston: Rand and Avery, 1864), by George N. Comer and Oliver E. Linton (page images at iampeth.com)
• The Pens Excellencie, or, The Secretaries Delight (1618), by Martin Billingsley (frame-dependent page images with commentary in the UK)
• Portfolio of Ornate Penmanship, ed. by A. N. Palmer (page images at iampeth.com)
• Practical Penmanship, Being A Developement of the Carstairian System (1830), by Benjamin Franklin Foster (page images at iampeth.com)
• Real Pen Work: Self-Instructor in Penmanship (Pittsfield, MA: Knowles and Maxim, c1881) (page images at iampeth.com)
• Studies in Pen Art (1914), by William Edward Dennis (page images at iampeth.com)
• Sykes's Manual of Penmanship (ca. 1885), by Henry Sykes (HTML at iampeth.com)
• Theory of Spencerian Penmanship, For Schools and Private Learners (New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., c1874), contrib. by Platt R. Spencer (page images at iampeth.com)
• Improving handwriting instruction in elementary schools. (Minneapolis, Burgess Pub. Co., [c1962]), by Paul Clay Burns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handwriting, by Edward L. Thorndike. (New York City, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1912), by Edward L. Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penmanship of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth centuries; (London, B. T. Batsford; New York, C. Scribner's sons, [1911]), by Lewis F. Day (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Writing objectives : second assessment / National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Denver, Colo. : National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1972), by National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Butterworth's Young arithmeticains instructor. ([Edinburgh, Butterworth & son, 1805]), by E. Butterworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to teach writing; a manual of penmanship designed to accompany Appletons' standard copy-books. (New York, Chicago [etc.] American book company, [1892]), by Lyman D. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handwriting efficiency in junior and senior high schools, (New York, Chicago [etc.] The Gregg publishing company, [c1921]), by Justin Millian Snesrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Control processes in modified hand-writing; an experimental study ... ([Chicago?, 1908]), by June Etta Downey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of fundamentals in the teaching of handwriting in the public schools, (Columbus, Ohio, The F. J. Heer printing co., 1918), by Tom Sawyier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penmanship made easy, (New York, E. J. Clode, [c1919]), by Edward Summers Squier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handwriting movement; a study of the motor factors of excellence in penmanship; an investigation carried on with the aid of a subsidy by the General education board, by Frank N. Freeman, with the assistance of H. W. Nutt, Mary L. Dougherty, C. F. Dunn and P. V. West. (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, [1918]), by Frank Nugent Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ziele des Schriftunterrichts; ein Beitrag zur modernen Schriftbewegung. (Jena, E. Diederich, 1911), by F. H. Ehmcke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grade standards for the New York penmanship scale. Issued by the Bureau of reference, research and statistics; ([New York city], 1920), by research and statistics New York (N.Y.) Board of education. Bureau of reference (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... and a complete guide to a parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference / G. A. Gaskell. (Chicago : Fairbanks, Palmer, 1882 [c1881]), by George Arthur Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new handwriting for teachers, by M.M. Bridges. (Oxford, University Press, 1907), by Mary Monica Waterhouse Bridges (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Compendio del arte de escribir por reglas y sin muestras, de D. Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti ... para uso de las reales escuelas ... (Madrid, Imprenta real, 1793), by Joseph de Anduaga y Garimberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penmanship, vertical penmanship : elements of English grammar, elements of English composition, punctuation and capitalization, business correspondence, typesetting and proofreading, tabulating, title-page composition, civil service letter writing, report writing. (Scranton : International Textbook Co., 1906), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young clerk's assistant; or, Penmanship made easy, instructive and entertaining: being a compleat pocket-copy-book, neatly engrav'd for the practice of youth in the art of writing. (London, W. Lowndes, 1787) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated lectures and lessons on the philosophy, physiology, psychology, pedagogy and child study; training and practice of the theory and art of penmanship for students and teachers in public, private, normal and commercial schools and colleges, or home reading and study ... (New York, Ellsworth Co., 1906), by H. W. Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huntington's art of penmanship; or, A new and improved system of rules and directions in the art of writing ... with ... engraved specimens ... and also, a plain method of teaching ... Containing a ... system of stenography ... compiled from Rees' New system ... (Hartford, O.D. Cooke, 1821), by Eleazer Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de escribir, compuesto por D. Estevan Ximénez, siguiendo el metodo y buen gusto de D. Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares. (Madrid, B. Cano, 1789), by Francisco Javier de Santiago Palomares (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and art of penmanship : a manual for teachers, containing a full statement of Payson, Dunton, and Scribner's celebrated method of teaching; including class-drill, writing in concert, criticism and correction of errors, hints towards awakening interest, etc. together with a complete analysis and synthesis of script letters, as developed in their series of writing-books. (Boston : Crosby and Nichols, 1864, c1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Technik der Feder der Weg der Schreiblehrkunst, sachlich begründet und methodisch erläutert. Ein Vortrag mit ergänzenden Abhandlungen zur Federtechnik, Schriftästhetik und Schreibmethodik. (München, R. Oldenbourg, 1905), by Georg Lang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The natural system of penmanship : a self-instructor in practical penmanship and guide to teachers-- / copyright by O.A. Hoffmann-- (Milwaukee, Wis. : Hoffmann Metropolitan Publishing Co., 1903), by Otto August Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship / P., D., & S., authors: J.W. Payson, S. Dunton, W.M. Scribner, A.S. Manson. (New York ; Chicago : Potter, Knight, Ainsworth & Co., 1881), by J. W. Payson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "According to Cocker"; the progress of penmanship from the earliest times, with upwards of twenty illustrative examples from "Penna volans" and other old works on the subject, by W. Anderson Smith. (Paisley and London, A. Gardner, 1887), by William Anderson Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Metodología de la lectura, la escritura y la aritmética, por José M. Torres. (Buenos Aires, Impr. de M. Biedma, 1889), by José María Torres (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Versuch den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einführung des Leinenpapieres, und den Anfang der Holzschneidekunst in Europa zu erforschen / von Joh. Gottl. Imman. Breitkopf. (Leipzig : J.G.I. Breitkopf, 1784-1801), by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscript writing and lettering: a handbook for schools & colleges--showing the historical development & practical application to modern handwriting of several manuscript styles derived from ancient Roman letters. Fully illustrated. By an educational expert. (London, Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gründliche anweisung zur erlernung einer schönen und geläutigen handschrift ... (Berlin, Geelhaar, 1857), by L. Strahlendorff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public school penmanship; a handbook for teachers, by Albert W. Clark. (Boston, New York, Ginn, 1909), by Albert Willistine Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Learning to write; a research report. (Albany, 1960), by University of the State of New York. Bureau of Elementary Curriculum Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exact measurements in education [by] James Leroy Stockton ... (Chicago, New York, Row, Peterson & company, [1915]), by James LeRoy Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Righthandedness and lefthandedness, with chapters treating of the writing posture, the rule of the road, etc., by George M. Gould. (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1908), by George M. Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Payson, Dunton, & Scribner manual of penmanship. P., D., & S., authors: J. W. Payson, S. Dunton, W. M. Scribner, G. H. Shattuck, A. S. Manson. (New York. Woolworth, Ainsworth, and company, [1873]), by Jesse W. Payson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schrift : Grundzüge ihrer Physiologie und Pathologie / von Albrecht Erlenmeyer ; mit 3 in Text gedruckten Holzschnitten und 12 lithographirten Tafeln. (Stuttgart : Adolf Bonz & Co., 1879), by Albrecht Erlenmeyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exact measurements in education [by] James Leroy Stockton. (Chicago, New York, Row, Peterson & company, [c1915]), by James LeRoy. Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York city penmanship scale, ([Brooklyn, Eagle printing co.], c1918), by Clyde Carlton Lister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale for rating and correcting handwriting [and Samples] (East Orange, N.J., 1922), by N.J. East Orange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penmanship: determining the achievement of elementary school graduates in handwriting ... (Boston, Printing department, 1916), by Boston. Dept. of educational investigation and measurement. [from old catalog] (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of penmanship ([New Haven, Press of S. Z. Field], c1913), by Harry Houston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker method of writing for public and private schools, (St. Louis, Mo., H. C. Walker, c1922), by Henry Christie Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remedial and follow-up work; handwriting ... (Bloomington, Ill., Public School publishing co., c.1926), by Paul Vining West (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Madarasz book, containing a collection of the work of L. Madarasz. (Columbus, Ohio, Zaner & Bloser Co., [c1911]), by Louis Madarasz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuscript writing and lettering: a handbook for schools & colleges--showing the historical development & practical application to modern handwriting of several manuscript styles derived from ancient Roman letters. Fully illustrated. By an educational expert. (London, Sir I. Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [1920?]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The psychology of the common branches. -- with abstracts of the source material, (Baltimore, Warwick & York, inc., 1930), by William Henry Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erstes Lehrbuch des Zeichnens, Schreibens, Lesens, Rechnens, der französischen und Muttersprach. Zum Gebrauch für Lehrer der Kinder aus den gebildeteren Ständen. (Halle : J.J. Gebauer, 1793-), by Christian Karl Andre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A score for the measurement of handwriting, by C. Truman Gray ... (Austin, Tex., The University, [1915]), by Clarence Truman Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grade standards for the New York penmanship scale. Issued by the Bureau of reference, research and statistics; ([New York city], 1920), by Research and Statistics New York (N.Y.). Board of Education. Bureau of Reference (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The teaching of handwriting, by Frank N. Freeman. (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin company, [c1914]), by Frank Nugent Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short cut to plain writing : a manual comprising concrete suggestions to adults for the improvement of handwriting in the shortest time and with the least effort. (Columbus, Ohio : Zaner & Bloser, c1914), by C. P. Zaner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zanerian penmanship anatomy, physiology, psychology, analysis, and history. (Columbus, Ohio : Zaner & Bloser, c1910), by C. P. Zaner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The arm movement method of rapid writing / by C.P. Zaner. (Columbus, Ohio : Zaner & Bloser Co., [1904]), by C. P. Zaner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penmanship explained, or, The principles of writing reduced to an exact science / by S.A. Potter. (Philadelphia : Cowperthwait & Co., 1868, 1866), by S. A. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book to accompany the Eclectic system of penmanship. By MM. Thompson and Bowlers. (Cincinnati, Wilson, Hinkle & co., [1870]), by Langdon S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teaching of reading and writing, an international survey. (Chicago, UNESCO, Scott, Foresman, [1956]), by William S. Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A comparative study of different methods used in teaching beginners to write, (New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1926), by Oscar Edward Hertzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic skills, 1979 : hearings before the Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1979), by Arts United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Palmer method of business writing : a series of self-teaching in rapid, plain, unshaded, coarse-pen, muscular movement writing ... / by A.N. Palmer. (New York : A.N. Palmer Company, 1915), by A. N. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plainer penmanship, for high schools and junior high schools (Milwaukee, Wis., The Bruce publishing company, [c1925]), by John Oswell Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hand-book to accompany the Eclectic system of penmanship / by M.M. Thompson and Bowlers. (Cincinnati : Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., c1870), by Langdon S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Becker's ornamental penmanship. : A series of analytical and finished alphabets / by George J. analytical and finished alphabets, by George J. Becker ... (Philadelphia,pbU. Hunt & son, [c1854]), by George J. Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de calígrafos españoles, por don Emilio Cotarelo y Mori ... Obra premiada por la Biblioteca nacional en el concurso público de 1906 é impresa á expensas del estado ... (Madrid, Tip. de la "Revista de arch., bibl. y muscos,", 1913-16), by Emilio Cotarelo y Mori (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Perception of symbols in skill learning by mentally retarded, gifted, and normal children [by] Theodore L. Harris, Virgil E. Herrick [and] G. Lawrence Rarick. ([Madison], 1961), by University of Wisconsin. Committee for Research in Basic Skills (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve lessons in reading, writing, and arithmetic, designed for use during moonlight school month in North Carolina. (Raleigh, N.C. : Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1915), by North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's guide to writing / by G. A. Gaskell. (New York : Office of "The Penman's gazette,", 1883), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... : and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference ... / By Prof. G. A. Gaskell. (Baltimore : A.C. Thomas, 1884), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, (Chiacgo, Fairbanks, Palmer & co., 1884), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical penmanship, being a development of the Carstairian system: comprehending an elucidation of the movements of the fingers, hand and arm, necessary in writing; their combinations and application, with remarks on the impediments which retard the progress of learners, and the errors resulting from common methods of teaching. Illustrated by 24 engravings ... By B.F. Foster. (Albany, N.Y., O. Steele, 1832), by Benjamin Franklin Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's Compendium of forms : educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... also, a manual of agriculture, mechanics and mining, and a guide to parliamentary practice ... / by G.A. Gaskell; edited by Loomis T. Palmer. (Chicago, Ill. : Standard Pub. Co., 1889), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggested course of study in oral and written expression for elementary schools. ([Sacramento, California State Printing Office, H. Hammond, state printer, 1934]), by California. State Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing on the board. ([Columbus, Ohio, Zaner-Bloser Co., 1954]), by Parker Zaner Bloser (page images at HathiTrust)

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