Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship

by H.C. Spencer, Platt Rogers Spencer

Publisher: New York: Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman; Chicago: Griggs; Philadelphia: Lippincott Publication date: 1866 Subjects: Penmanship Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

186 pages, Paperback

First published July 8, 2009

About the author

Pen artist and author of penmanship manuals. Henry Caleb Spencer developed his “Spencerian” method while teaching handwriting in the early nineteenth century. Instead of teaching penmanship as a series of stylized, memorized letters, Spencer broke down letters into common elements based on natural forms, which could then be combined to form individual letters. His first published work was in 1848, and after his death, his family continued in the business, which essentially dominated penmanship instruction in America after the Civil War. Books such as the 1866 edition were successfully marketed by members of the Spencer family to schools across the country.