[Decorative Arts]Group of 3 Books on PenmanshipDean, HenryDean's Analytical Guide to the Art of Penmanship...New York, etc.: Published for the Author, no date (1808). Second edition. 4to. 110 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, 35 engraved plates, and one large engraved folding plate. Original boards, sometime rebacked, printed cover label, boards heavily worn and soiled; all edges trimmed; front hinge worn; lacking front free endpaper; frontispiece loose; old ownership signature on verso of frontispiece; prelims heavily foxed; text and plates moderately to heavily foxed; offsetting from plates. Together with:Williams, John D., and S.S. PackardWilliams & Packard's Gems of Penmanship...New York: D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, 1866. Oblong 4to. 4, (102) pp. Illustrated with numerous calligraphic designs and diagrams. Original quarter black leather over green pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt, head and tail of spine chipped, front joint worn, boards lightly worn and rubbed; speckled red edges; all edges lightly toned. Together with: Ames, Daniel T.Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic PenmanshipNew York: D.T. Ames, 1884. Oblong 12mo. 64 pp. Illustrated with numerous calligraphic designs and diagrams. Original brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, corners lightly worn, rear board unevenly faded and soiled; all edges trimmed; scattered minor soiling.Three nineteenth-century-spanning volumes that highlight the United States' unique democratization of penmanship, from calligraphic professionalism to decorative flourish. Unlike European penmanship models in the nineteenth-century, which tended toward use-specfic styles for different professional and social functions, models devised in the U.S. tended toward more hybrid, and more easily learned methods, in theory available to all.