Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration "KEEP" circled many times in

"KEEP" circled many times in red

7 11/16" t x 7 5/16 and in very good antique condition

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

and lighthouse in the background

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

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! bill anthony illustration "KEEP" circled many times inSo 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