Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration recognizable as a jaw but

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

In Verse" lining the bottom

and the details in this one perhaps most of all between the two carts

reaching the height of popularity around the turn of the century I believe

And then a little dog

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration recognizable as a jaw butSo 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