Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift Marked with an "A" on

Marked with an "A" on the back

plus a wonderful mix of blooms in a range of rich pinks and and purples and deep blue

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

I surely would not much have enjoyed living in the 1830s

which picture a handful but not all pages

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift Marked with an "A" onSo fun to find this one the other day, gymnastic exercises a la 1863! It's a scarce one, and made all the better by careful crayon coloring in yellow and green on a number of the excellent illustrations. I especially like seeing a section toward the end where movements of the body were linked to spelling out words, and others specifying the tempo of music, or even specific songs, to which exercise sequences of should be set. Just waiting to be