Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration With chunky black shoes

With chunky black shoes

really only noticeable it you are looking for it

"KEEP" circled many times in red

And then a little dog

recognizable as a jaw but also looking a bit like a model of earth strata

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration With chunky black shoesSo 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