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Spencerian Penmanship (Copybook 3)

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So I have heard of the workbooks that came with the Spencerian key to practical penmanship. Since that book is in the public domain by now (presumably) I reckoned that the workbooks would be in the public domain too but I could not find a pdf of them anywhere.



Spencerian Penmanship (Copybook 3)

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Does anyone any sources for downloading Spencerian copybooks? Interestingly, I was unable to find any, not even on the IAMPETH site. Guidesheets, old lesson books, heaps of other good material, yes; copybooks, no. By this I mean a row of letters to practice across the top, and some guides below to reproduce the letters.


I know about the ones from Sull and another put out by Mott publishing, but with so much material out of copyright (like the books on IAMPETH) and available for download, I'm surprised there's no copybooks. Have I just missed them?


These, or others like them, are the out-of-copyright copybooks I'm looking for. I realise I could always create my own copybooks, but these professionally made copy books are going to be far superior than my amateur efforts'.






My effort (leaving aside for a moment the question of how you could possibly know how much 'effort' I put into my practice.) is irrelevant to the topic at hand. The topic is the availability of Spencerian copybooks for download and I don't really see how looking for a copybook is somehow a bad thing when wanting to improve my handwriting...Can I learn without? Sure. Is it easier to learn with one? Of course, that's why they're out there, both in the past and now.


With or without a copybook, that is what is escaping you, it will take you several hundreds of hours of practice to learn any fine motor skill. The time you spent searching for a copybook could have be used to actually learn Spencerian penmanship.


FWIW, I don't see anything in the original post that leads me to believe that the OP is looking for an easy way to learn Spencerian. The question, which in my opinion is a valid one, is simply whether there are any copyright expired copybooks available.


We all learn in different ways and none are more valid than any other. I believe copybooks provide a structure that is very helpful. I am learning Spencerian myself and find myself straying from 'the path' which probably would not happen if I was using a copybook so I can see value in using one.


On a whim, I stopped by the state library of Victoria and found a few old copybooks in their catalog (waiting for the book to be delivered from storage). Sadly there were none from America, but I'll bet that there are some Spencerian copybooks available in the larger American libraries that could be copied & scanned.


I thought I should paste that in as another poster was giving the original poster such a hard time for wanting to find a copybook, especially since the developer of this particular style of writing recommends it!


I've been searching for the better part of a few months for a good way of fabricating a Spencerian copybook and have basically arrived at the conclusion that someone should just darn well make one while taking into account various nib sizes, load them into a PDF. The first sheet past the cover should provide nib information (for example, if you have an American EF or a Japanese/Chinese F, use this one; if not, get your carcass over to the F PDF and use that one!). From there, the user should be able to simply print the workbooks out on printing paper that works well with their own inks and pens and start.


Honestly, though, it shouldn't be that complicated to fabricate a guide for oneself. It's even practical to take a cheap length of balsa and adhere a strip of practice lettering to it, enabling the writer to move the strip down the page without distortion. For scaling and to insure proper development, one would think that graphing paper could work- although one might be restricted to F-EF in doing so. It's further conceivable that one could simply do some modifications on existing example lines and place those over a template in any document editor (word, openoffice, etc.) and use tables and borders to create a useable copy book. In that way, it's conceivable that FPN could develop its own open-source handwriting copybook database. With that, we could all share a common grounding point with certain variables that would make it easier to communicate with universal methods/language for how we are all learning the same script.


Yes, you can buy the Spencerian guide and copybooks at a very reasonable price. I see from reading this thread that the quality of paper is not great, but I do intend to buy them. However I did want a pdf to print out for myself so I can start trying it out and also be able to do extra practice since I have horribly inconsisent handwriting, always have all my life, and such tendencies will be a challenge to overcome.



I also wanted to chime in on the idea of wanting copybooks to make it 'easier' and wanting them being an indication of not wanting to put in the effort to learn. These copybooks Tare how Spencerian handwriting was originally taught for generations.


If it was good enough for my forefathers and foremothers along with thousands upon thousands of others, it's certainly good enough for me. [wink]



 -of-the-spencerian-method-of-papractical-penmanship-and-five-copybooks.pdf


Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, used various existing scripts and nature as inspiration to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as elegant personal letter-writing. Spencer, inspired by the forms that he saw of smooth pebbles in a stream, aimed to create a graceful script to resemble those shapes.[4] While likely originally writing and developing the script with a quill pen, Spencerian script's evolution is tied to the availability and development of higher-quality steel pens.[5]


Spencerian script was developed in 1840 and began soon after to be taught in the school Spencer established specifically for that purpose, in doing so replacing a form of Copperplate script, English roundhand, which was the most prominent script being taught in America. He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it abroad, and Spencerian script thus began to reach the common schools. Spencerian script even became the official hand of government clerks. Spencer never saw the great success that his penmanship style enjoyed because he died in 1864, but his sons took upon themselves the mission of bringing their late father's dream to fruition.[6]


Despite its prominence in America and its school curriculum, the Spencerian Method for script fell largely due to society's need for a faster, "simpler" script to allow telegraphers to translate Morse code directly into writing.[7] This 'modern need' led to the Palmer Method's rise as he simplified the Spencerian style to create an even 'speedier' method. The development of people's artistic ability/penmanship along with higher quality, more refined tools and materials would lead to the creation of Ornamental Script, a Spencerian script variant.[8] It was gradually replaced in primary schools with the Palmer Method, a simplified version.


The text in Ford Motor Company's logo is written in Spencerian script, as is the Coca-Cola logo.[11] It is speculated and highly likely that F. M. Robinson, a bookkeeper said to have named Coca-Cola, was trained in business and penmanship at Spencerian school, and suggested that it be engraved "Spencerian style." Even though Robinson said he also wrote/made the original script form for the logo alongside Frank Ridge in a court case in 1914, one of Louis Madarasz's pupils claims that the man himself said to him that he made it during the height of his mail-order business for Robinson or Ridge and forgot about it as Coca-Cola had a relatively small and slow start.[12]


Platt Rogers Spencer developed one of the earliest systematized approaches to teaching handwriting in the 1840s. The Spencerian method of penmanship was based on fluid movements observed in nature and was widely taught in schools beginning in 1850. It allowed for personalization and embellishment, replacing the tight, stiff English Copperplate script, also known as round hand, which was popular at the time. Round hand had originated in Europe and was nicknamed Copperplate after the copybooks from which students learned to write, which were printed using etched copper plates. Designed for use with a quill pen, round hand is the style of writing used in the body of the Declaration of Independence.


The development of the Spencerian and Palmer methods also reflects the introduction of different types of writing implements to the classroom. Around the same time that Spencerian penmanship was introduced to schools, quills were being abandoned in favor of slate tablets and slate pencils. These slates could be erased and reused without wasting precious paper. Likewise, the Palmer Method became popular as paper was becoming more affordable, and students eventually began switching from slates to composition books used with fountain pens or graphite pencils.

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