Practical studies in the gifts
Practical studies in the gifts by Jeannette Gregory West, published in St Louis in 1899 by Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., is a kindergarten manual of building exercises with wooden blocks for young children. The pictures are line drawings of block constructions in isometric view, showing stacked cubes, bridges, towers and arrangements of oblong bricks built into symmetrical, cross-like or pyramidal forms, which a designer might use as clean geometric motifs or modular grid patterns.
