# The Ink Bottle, Oct 1888

The Ink Bottle was a short-lived calligraphy journal, edited by William D. Showalter. Articles and illustrations by Showalter, Charles P. Zaner, Fielding Schofield, and others. “A magazine for that part of our population who know or wish to know how to use the pen pleasantly & profitably.” Physical description: 36 pages; 10 × 6.6 in. (25.4 × 16.8 cm); paper covers.

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: The Ink Bottle, Oct
- Year: 1888
- By: Showalter, William D. (editor)
- Publisher: W. D. Showalter, Jacksonville, Ill.; Oct 1888, vol. 2, no. 15
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ink-bottle-1888-oct)
- Licence or status: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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