Goldsmith's gems of penmanship
Subtitle: containing various examples of the caligraphic [sic] art, embracing the author's system of mercantile penmanship : in ten lessons of one hour each, with ample instructions
By: by Oliver B. Goldsmith
Publisher: Published by the Author
Published: 1846
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Copybooks; Penmanship
Other titles: Gems of penmanship
Notes: The 24 leaves consist of a letterpress title-page, two leaves of prefatory letterpress, an added lithographed t.p., and 18 lithographed samples interleaved with two letterpress leaves. The concluding letterpress pages consist of a poem, Lines to the Pen, a lecture on the pen, and testimonials.

Portrait of Goldsmith by Avignon after a daguerreotype by Gurney, printed by Nagel.

Two wood engravings showing position of the hand, one signed J.J. Butler, on leaf [6].

Text in double columns.

Nash, R. American penmanship 1800-1850, 346.