Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift but most of these temple

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

which has not led me to its maker

gouache and graphite on paper I believe

I thought I was going to die

second half  20th century I think

Scarce Manual of Gymnastic Exercises for School and Family, 1863, with Excellent Illustrations! handmade gift but most of these templeSo 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