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Learning to write: the Vere Foster copybooks

Vere Foster was an educationalist and philanthropist who produced a popular series of writing copy books:

Cover of a Vere Foster copybook. Photo: M.Mateer, 2007. CC

A Vere Foster copy book for lettering. The motto along the bottom reads, "A nation's greatness depends upon the education of its people."

The border contains the rose, thistle and shamrock - the symbols of England, Scotland and Ireland. There is no daffodil or other symbol for Wales as Wales was officially part of England. The Union flag works the same way combining the component flags of England, Scotland and Ireland, but not Wales.

Collection and Photo: M.Mateer, 2007. Creative Commons.

These three images taken from a Vere Foster copybook are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 License.

"Italic Ornamented" alphabet.

"Celtic" alphabet.

Cead Mile Failte - pronounced: kayad meela foilcha - is the traditonal Gaelic greeting which means " A Hundred Thousand Welcomes".

Erin Go Bragh - pronounced: erin go bra - means "Ireland forever".

These three images taken from a Vere Foster copybook are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 License.

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