My penmanship is not consistent and, after seeing some of the examples in this forum, I am looking to improve.

So - I noticed that books.google.com has texts on penmanship.
I'm skimming some of these now, and I'm liking them. So, I'm sharing this find with you.

-- joe

Sam at Pendemonium (www.pendemonium.com) has a few books ("Write Better Right Now" has lessons on Italic). Check her "Reference Books" tab (towards the bottom) and she even has some vintage ones in her "Ephemera" section.

No affiliation, just a happy customer...

Thought I'd throw up a few more advanced searches here:

"Penmanship" Anywhere in book Full-view books at GoogleBooks
"Penmanship" Subject Full-View books at GoogleBooks

Thanks for the tip! I should have thought to look there!
-Allen

I list some books here on my web pages --- http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-calligraphy.html

only one is on-line though, La Operina by Ludovico Vicentino degli Arrighi, The first writing book.
http://briem.ismennt.is/4/4.4.1a/4.4.1.01.operina.htm

William