--- product_id: 1608914 title: "Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory" price: "€ 50.24" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1608914-spencerian-cursive-copybook-set-plus-theory store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Theory book with classic pen stroke principles 5 progressive workbooks 9 easy lessons to master cursive Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory **Price:** € 50.24 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ✒️ Elevate your handwriting game—because your pen deserves a masterpiece! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory - **How much does it cost?** € 50.24 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1608914-spencerian-cursive-copybook-set-plus-theory) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Perfect pairing:** Ideal companion for fountain pen enthusiasts seeking to complement their tools with stunning penmanship. - • **Flat-lay binding:** Special binding design lets your workbook lay flat for seamless, comfortable practice every time. - • **Mindful technique:** Theory book teaches the philosophy and pen strokes behind graceful, rapid writing—engage both hand and mind. - • **Timeless elegance:** Learn Spencerian Penmanship, a refined 18th-century script that elevates your handwriting to an art form. - • **Step-by-step mastery:** From short letters to full sentences, build your skills progressively with 5 focused workbooks. ## Overview The Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory is a comprehensive 6-book course designed to teach cursive handwriting from basics to advanced sentences. Featuring 5 progressive workbooks and a detailed theory guide, it combines historical elegance with practical techniques. Its flat-lay binding enhances usability, making it perfect for learners of all ages aiming to refine their penmanship or start calligraphy. ## Description This affordable collection of cursive handwriting workbooks is designed to teach cursive regardless of age or skill level. Whether you’re teaching elementary students cursive for the first time or hoping to improve your own penmanship, the Spencerian workbooks are the perfect tools to help you achieve your handwriting goals. Each booklet contains special binding which allows it to lay flat so that students can utilize the entirety of each page without the binding acting as a hindrance (as is often the case with many workbooks). Spencerian Penmanship teaches tried and true methods of handwriting dating as far back as the 18th century, a time when nearly every piece of handwritten work was exquisite. Due to the classic, artistic style of Spencerian Penmanship, many have even used this series to begin their study of calligraphy. Spencerian Penmanship is sure to turn any novice into an expert in just 9 easy lessons and offers dozens of practice pages to hone one’s skills. The five copybooks listed below form a complete course in cursive handwriting. Book 1: Introduces all short letters. Only four strokes―or principles, as Spencer called them―are needed to produce these letters. Book 2: Adds some tall letters (t and d) and numerals 1-9. Book 3: Completes the lower-case alphabet and introduces most capitals. Book 4: Completes the capital alphabet and practices full words. Book 5: Presents sentences and sayings for writing practice. Examples: Kind words can never die. Promise little and do much. The complete set also includes a theory book which explains how each letter can be made gracefully and rapidly using various combinations of a few basic pen strokes. It explains Spencer's philosophy of teaching principles that engage the mind as well as the hand. It also details his methods for teaching classes of children. Get your copy of Spencerian Penmanship today and begin rediscovering the classical art of handwriting. Review: A must buy with any fountain pen. - A while back I saw a Kickstarter campaign for a fountain pen, and in the video, the guy had the coolest handwriting. The campaign ended up being a bust, but it got me interested in fountain pens, so I bought, rather impulsively, a Lamy Safari italic, and 2 Visconti pens. After buying the pens, I realized that my handwriting, while decent, wasn't anything that would impress anyone. I stumbled on iampeth.com which is a great resource for learning all about different scripts and their histories. Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff on the site is ridiculously complicated and not anything that could really be used day to day, including the ultra-embellished Spencerian script. So, I started looking on desertcart to see if I could find any Spencerian guides. I came upon this and bought it. The set comes with 5 books and a theory book. The theory book is hilarious. It advocates things like getting out a protractor and ruler to measure the exact distance and angle you're sitting with respect to your paper. Okay, ya no... not doing that. But in any case, it's an amusing historical insight into a bygone era. The books themselves are of pretty high quality. They feel like something out of their era but in a very nice way. Each book starts with basics, building upon the last book, and gradually if you use this, you're handwriting will improve. I wouldn't say that I was dedicated enough to come out with absurdly beautiful handwriting, but my handwriting has definitely improved and doing it on my own terms as opposed to having some rude elementary school teacher beat into me was satisfying. I'd definitely recommend a finer tipped tipped pen and ink that won't bleed. The paper is good, but it's not thick enough to prevent bleeding with wet inks, and the lines are small, so writing with a fat tip is going to make mastering some of the flourishes difficult. All in all, if you're interested in having cooler looking handwriting to go along with your expensive fountain pens or even just generally, these books are a good investment. Review: Great easy tool to teach yourself to improve your handwriting skills. - This set of penmanship books are great if you want to improve your handwriting skills. Today most children have lost the ability to write in cursive. These books are great to teach them as well as improve your own hand writing skills for the next note card you have to write. Everyone can benefit from these books. ## Features - Book 1: Initiates short letters; four key strokes form them - Book 2: Adds tall letters t, d, and numerals 1-9 - Book 3: Completes lowercase alphabet, introduces most capitals - Book 4: Finishes capital alphabet, practices all letters in words - Book 5: Offers sentences, sayings for writing practice ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #6,215 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Handwriting Reference (Books) #83 in Textbooks (Special Features Stores) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,002 Reviews | ## Images ![Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71uNyna0nRL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must buy with any fountain pen. *by B***C on October 30, 2013* A while back I saw a Kickstarter campaign for a fountain pen, and in the video, the guy had the coolest handwriting. The campaign ended up being a bust, but it got me interested in fountain pens, so I bought, rather impulsively, a Lamy Safari italic, and 2 Visconti pens. After buying the pens, I realized that my handwriting, while decent, wasn't anything that would impress anyone. I stumbled on iampeth.com which is a great resource for learning all about different scripts and their histories. Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff on the site is ridiculously complicated and not anything that could really be used day to day, including the ultra-embellished Spencerian script. So, I started looking on Amazon to see if I could find any Spencerian guides. I came upon this and bought it. The set comes with 5 books and a theory book. The theory book is hilarious. It advocates things like getting out a protractor and ruler to measure the exact distance and angle you're sitting with respect to your paper. Okay, ya no... not doing that. But in any case, it's an amusing historical insight into a bygone era. The books themselves are of pretty high quality. They feel like something out of their era but in a very nice way. Each book starts with basics, building upon the last book, and gradually if you use this, you're handwriting will improve. I wouldn't say that I was dedicated enough to come out with absurdly beautiful handwriting, but my handwriting has definitely improved and doing it on my own terms as opposed to having some rude elementary school teacher beat into me was satisfying. I'd definitely recommend a finer tipped tipped pen and ink that won't bleed. The paper is good, but it's not thick enough to prevent bleeding with wet inks, and the lines are small, so writing with a fat tip is going to make mastering some of the flourishes difficult. All in all, if you're interested in having cooler looking handwriting to go along with your expensive fountain pens or even just generally, these books are a good investment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great easy tool to teach yourself to improve your handwriting skills. *by J***. on March 16, 2025* This set of penmanship books are great if you want to improve your handwriting skills. Today most children have lost the ability to write in cursive. These books are great to teach them as well as improve your own hand writing skills for the next note card you have to write. Everyone can benefit from these books. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wonderful book to improve your penmanship *by L***C on December 4, 2013* These are wonderful for those who are interested in improving their penmanship in a traditional way. PR Spencer is the father of American cursive, long predating the modern cursive that you see today. First developed in 1870s, there is no wonder that the instructions, language and style is a little old-fashioned but hey, that's what we want, right? If you want your kids to learn cursive handwriting, these copybooks may just be a little too boring, tedious and old fashioned for them. But for us adults who appreciate beautiful 19th century writing, look no further. Traditionally, Spencerian penmanship is done using a quill pen. Yep, the turkey feather stuff. That's why in the later books there are some shadings on the letters.. all they have to do back then is press harder on the quill pen and the shading occurs. Unfortunately, one cannot achieve shading with a modern roller ball or gel pen. You would need a steel dip nib, a flexible fountain pen or a quill (if you're really dedicated) and inkpot to achieve this. Still, it's not necessary, you can get any fine pen to practice the whole set and ignore the shading. You can generally use any old pen to practice, although I recommend using the finest pen you can find.. a 0.4 or even 0.3mm pen. This is so you can really concentrate on the letter forms as you practice. Using a thick/broad pen to practice letterforms is like cooking with a cold.. you can't tell what you're doing wrong! This is NOT copperplate! Spencerian penmanship is NOT meant to 'test the limits of your flexible nibs.' Yes, there is some shading in this script but not much. These are very light shading just to accent the letters, some letters are shaded, and some not. Some are shaded more, some less. These little nuances and variety in the script is what makes is beautiful. In comparison, copperplate/engrossers utilize even shading for all letters and is not meant to be a handwriting style. It's important not to get these two scripts confused. Honestly, if you buy this book and fill up every page diligently, I don't see how you won't improve. Unless you've been writing with your eyes closed or something, if you put effort with this book, you WILL improve. It's like a side effect you can't shake off. Once you are done with the book, perhaps you will find an itch to practice with a dip nib to get those coveted shades.. then you'll find you need better ink and better paper.. next thing you know, you're up to your knees in copybooks and penmanship books and nibs. It's a slippery slope, my friends, to the world of beautiful penmanship.. and this is the first step! ## Frequently Bought Together - Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory - Studio Series Calligraphy Paper Pad: 50 Sheets - The Art of Cursive Penmanship: A Personal Handwriting Program for Adults --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1608914-spencerian-cursive-copybook-set-plus-theory](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/1608914-spencerian-cursive-copybook-set-plus-theory) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-06-28*