Virtue the Source of Pleasure.

London: Printed by John Olive: Sold by J. Buckland...andJ. Ward..., 1757. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, pp. vii [viii blank], 319 [320 blank], including half-title, recent half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label. A very good copy. Mr. Barnard's title suggests a philosophical treatise, with Aristotle perhaps to the foreground. In fact, the text is mostly in verse, including two plays, The Somewhat and Edward VI in blank verse. Various sources do not give birth and death dates, only that he flourished c. 1741 - 1757. The headmaster and later provost of Eton, Edward Barnard (1717 - 1781) might seem to be a possible candidate for authorship. ODNB doesn't mention any publications by Barnard. The Prologue to Edward VI is preceded by "Disadvantages Relating to the following Entertainment," which clearly indicates that the play wasw written to be performed by "The Young." King Edward VI (1537 - 1553) effectively became King at the age of ten, when Henrv VIII died on 28 January 1547, and his short reign would certainly have supplied ample homiletic and pedagogic examples for Etonian schoolboys. ESTC T84940 locates copies in BL and Bodleian in the UK; Harvard (2), Huntington, Union Theological Seminary, UC Berkeley, Chicago and Texas (2) in the United States; and Alberta in Canada