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An Address to Persons of Quality and Estate. To which is added, an Appendix Of some Original and Valuable Papers.

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London: Printed by J. James, for R. S. and sold by Charles Rivington..., 1715. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxxi [xxxii blank], 267 [268], 55 [56 - 59 text, 60 - 62 adverts, recent quarter calf, morocco label, marbled boards; no portrait. Nelson is best-known for his active membership in the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (founded 1698) and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (1701), and generally for his religious writings. However, this book, published in the year of his death, illustrates the practical application of his Christian beliefs, with schemes for the relief of the poor, for education, for the formation of libraries, for the erection of charity schools, and for other social welfare projects, many of which were subsequently brought into being.
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Advice to a Lady.

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London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, 1733. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 360 x 230 mms., pp. [3 4 - 8, followed by 17 recent blank leaves, recent buckram spine, marbled boards; some fraying of lower margins, but a good copy. Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) addresses his poem to "Belinda," aka Lady Diana Spencer (1710–1735), who later married the Duke of Bedford; she died two years after the poem was published. Foxon L328.
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The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon.

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London: Macmillan…, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. xii, 198 [199 - 200 addenda], 4 pp. adverts, original cloth. Designed as a school text-book.
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London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1798. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, [13] - 232 [233 - 278 "English Spelling Dictionary"], engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin (worn); covers detached. Despite the apparent absence of 2 leaves after the Contents, the text appears complete; p. [13] is the first page in gathering B. The leaf after the title-page is signed A3, but the verso is paginated "iv," and the work may lack a half-title or initial blank, as the frontispiece is tipped onto the title-page. Other copies of this work have a four-page Preface following the Contents. The earliest edition that I can locate with this exact title in ESTC is one printed in 1773 in Edinburgh; the latest is 1797, a year before the imprint in this case, printed in Salem, Massachusetts. The latest British imprint found in ESTC is in 1796, in Edinburgh (T. Ross for G. Peattie, Leith; and another for J. Fairbairn), with another in London ( A. Millar, W. Law; and R. Cater; And for Wilson,… Read More
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A Course of Lectures: Containing Remarks upon the Government and Education of Children.  Thoughts...
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Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, 1783. 8vo, 202 x 128 mms., pp. 338, including half-title, contemporary calf, recently rebacked with old gilt spine and red morocco label laid down, facsimiles of pp. 19 - 22 inserted before defective leaves of those pages in text, and last leaf of subscribers in facsimile; text a little fingered and soiled, but a good copy. Who was Rest Knipe? He must have been known to dozens of people in Edinburgh and Aberdeen, because there are 32 pages of subscribers in the two editions of this book; but he seems to have escaped the attention of scholars. Perhaps the most obvious feature of his treatise is the almost completely secular character of the education he prescribes for children and his opposition to a classical education for most boys: "after a boy has been puzzling his poor brains, and been tortured with Latin for several years, it is ten to one, that, comparative speaking, he knows nothing; i. e nothing radical and to the bottom; nothing, in short, but… Read More
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De liberis recte instituendis, liber.
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De liberis recte instituendis, liber.

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Argentinae [Strasbourg] Apud Ioannem Albertum, Anno M. D. XXXV. Mense Martio. 1535. Small 8vo, 147 x 90 mms., unpaginated, pp. [124], collating A-H8, with the recto of the last leaf bearing the engraved colophon, contemporary vellum (slightly soiled), with the autograph in ink "Walter Shelley/ M. Temple" on the front paste-down end-paper, and in pencil on the recto of the front free end-paper, "Cosmo Gordon/ [?Inschia] 1951." Sadoleto (1477 - 1547), the Italian humanist and churchman, and in 1533 published his De pueris recte instituendis, considering the education of boys in his capacity as Bishop of Carpentras, to be his most important duty. Sadoleto was also friendly with Erasmus (1466 - 1536) and corresponded with him on numerous matters, including education; his Imago pueri Jesu posita in ludo literario is included in the present volume. "Sadoleto, a cultured yet devout believer, strikes a note of deep seriousness, symptoms of the temper of the counter-reformation… Read More
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A Discourse Delivered in the Theatre at Oxford, in the Senate-House at Cambridge, and at Spring-Garden in London. Being Introductory to His Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language. The Second Edition

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London: Printed for A. Millar...[inter alia], 1759. 8vo (in 4s), 200 x 112 mms., pp. [iv], 59 [60 blank], recently rebound in full light tan calf, gilt lettering on spine, marbled end-papers. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Sidney Broad on the verso of the front free end-paper The work was noticed in The Monthly Review for August, 1759: "We find very little in this Discourse either to applaud or censure; it being mere declamation, calculated to recommend the study of oratory, --under so able a professor as it is insinuated Mr. Sheridan would prove to be, if placed in either University, and encouraged by a handsome salary. Mr. Sheridan talks much of the evils attending our neglect and disuse of elocution, and the great good that would follow the cultivation of its study and practice He does not, however, point these out very clearly...." This appears to be the sheets of the first edition of the same year, with a cancel title-page. ESTC N47536 locates three copies: Edinburgh… Read More
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Edward Gibbon. Men and Books.

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London: Longmans, 1953. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], 176, original cloth, fine copy in very slightly soiled dust-jacket.
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London: Printed for J. and E. Wallis...By P.l Vigues..., 1813. FIRST EDITION. 12mo,126 x 78 mms., pp. 107 [108 blank], contemporary pin stiff paper covers, with handwritten on front cover; lacks frontispiece, title-page partially detached at inner margin.
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The Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life. In Three Parts. Written for the Instruction of a Young Nobleman. To which is added, A Word to the Ladies, by way of Supplement to the First Part. The Sixth Edition

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London, Printed by J. Heptinstall for E. Smith..., 1716. 8vo, 190 X 110, pp. [xxii], 584, contemporary panelled calf; front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, other general wear to binding; a fair copy. William Darrell (1651–1721) "entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1671. He entered the novice college at Watten in November 1672, and studied philosophy at the English College, Liège, from 1673 to 1675" (ODNB). He was a bit of a polemical author, but his most popular and enduring work, The Genleman Instructed, first published in 1702, was perfectly in tune with the climate of opinion and the received mores of the early 18th century. It is in this work when the student of 18th century literature will encounter the assertion that it was Hobbes's wit which contributed to his "atheism," and in the present work it is young Theomachus who "once intoxicated with Atheistical Wit...was soon bewitch'd with Atheisical Arguments." Small… Read More
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Institutions: Or, Advice to His Grandson, In Three Parts. By William Higford, Esq. London: 1658

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[London]: [Reprinted by W. Bulmer and Co.] [1818]. 8vo, 184 x 111 mms., pp. [iv] v -xv [xvi], 104, attractively bound in later full calf, gilt border on covers, spine in blind and gilt in compartments, with vertical title, in gilt, all edges gilt; lower front joint slightly cracked, some additional rubbing of joints, but a very good copy,, with the armorial bookplate of Lieut. Geneeral Burr on the verso of the leaf opposite the title-page. Bulmerf's imprint appears on the lower margin of page 104. This work by William Higford (1580/81–1657) was first published in 1658 just after his death. "The recipient of this advice was John (b. 1627), son of Higford's son John (b. 1607), who married in 1626 Frances Scudamore (1608–1688) but predeceased his father. Higford clearly felt responsible for his grandson's upbringing. Institutions was reprinted in 1660, republished in 1666 as The Institution of a Gentleman in III Parts, and reprinted by Thomas Park in The Harleian… Read More
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The Ladies Calling In Two Parts. By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man, &c. The Eighth Impression.

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Oxford, Printed at the Theater, 1705. 8vo, 189 x 120 mms., pp. [xxiv], 270 [271 Contents, 272 blank], engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title-page, attractively bound in Oxford panelled red morocco, gilt rules on spine; front joint slightly cracked, but a very good copy. The Church of England clergyman Richard Allestree (1621/2–1681) joined the royalist forces in 1642 and managed to keep his academic post at Oxford until 1648. After the restoration in 1660 he was restored to a powerful position in Oxford and was a serious scholar and conscientious lecturer. He published The Whole Duty of Man in 1657 and The Gentleman's Calling in 1660. The Ladies Calling was published in 1673 and is, astonishingly, not mentioned in the ODNB entry on Allestree. "It is always dangerous to ascribe considerable influence and significance to a particular text in the emergence of an ideology but the publication of Richard Allestree's The Ladies Calling in 1673 seems to have a real… Read More
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Lectures at Home. Second Edition

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London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1841. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 211 [212 colophon], engraved frontispiece of the Portland Vase, additional engraved title-page, full-page engraved plates ap pages 9, 77, 91, 167, 185, original cloth (soiled); edges dusty, slightly shaken in casing, but a fair to good copy, with the inscription "William Wallace Rooke/ January 17th/ 1843." on the recto of the engraved frontispiece. Maria Hack (née Barton, 1777 - 1844) was a prolific author of books for children. She published the above work, a history of glass and an introduction to optics, in 1834, as Lectures at Home. Discovery and Manufacture of Glass; Lenses and Mirrors; the Structure of the Eye. Copies of the 1834 edition located in BL, Bodleian, Wellcome, NLS, and St. Andrews; and there are several copies on the market. The only copy of the 1841 second edition, which appears not to have been reset from the first edition, is in the Bodleian. These figures are… Read More
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A Letter to a Friend in the Country, Relative to the Intended School, at Ackworth, in Yorkshire....
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A Letter to a Friend in the Country, Relative to the Intended School, at Ackworth, in Yorkshire. The Second Edition, with Additions

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London: Printed and sold by James Phillips..., 1779. 8vo (in 4s), 211 x 133 mms., pp. 64, folding engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates at end, uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers (rubbed and faded), stitched as issued; some slight, short tears to plates not affecting plate area. SOLD WITH: An engraved medallion, 50 mms. in diameter, of Fothergill, struck in 1879, in commemoration of the centennial of Ackworth School, with Fothergeill's profile on the obverse and an image of the school on the reverse. Fothergill (1712 - 1780) the previous year; this edition has been expanded from the 48 pges of the 1778 edition to 64. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he wrote to him to describe the proposed school as "a school for a plain English education' for the sons and daughters of poor Friends." ODNB notes that the school is "Fothergill's most important monument." ESTC T1885 locates the following North American copies: Swarthmore, Harvard, Haverford,… Read More
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Letters on Education. [AND]: Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education. Vol. II

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Bath, Printed by R. Cruttwell; for G. G. and J. Robinson..., 1801, 1802. FIRST EDITION of each volume. 8vo, pp. viii, 413 [414 blank]; [iv], iv, 455 [456 adverts], including half-title in volume 2, volume 1 bound in contemporary tree calf, rebacked, gilt spine, morocco label; title-page tape-marked at inner margin with outer margin re-inforced, inner margin pp. iii-iv reinforced; volume 2, original boards, uncut, with upper blank portion of half-title torn away, spine chipped, boards soiled. Hamilton's book was published in 1801 as a separate volume, and she added a second volume in 1802, slightly amending the title. Thereafter the work was published with the longer title and was published in three volumes in 1803, though without any new material added.
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London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater..., 1792. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo (in 6s), pp. 180, continuous collation and pagination for both works, with divisional title-page for "Polite Philosopher" following p. 118, contemporary sheepskin; no end-papers, rubbed and worn, joints holding on for dear life, most of spine missing with cords exposed. Provenance: "John Burdett's and Burdett's [sic] Book March 17th 1804 Saxmundham Suffolk" on front paste-down end-paper. The first edition with this title was published in Edinburgh in 1775, and ESTC locates another 34 others, though the first to include The Polite Philosopher was in 1782. ESTC distinguishes between two editions with this date and imprint: as above, T222935 (BL only), and T214375 (ZDU), with different pagination (18mo: [2], vii, [1], 184p) and The Polite Philosopher on the primary title-page.
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A New History of England, by Question and Answer. Extracted from the Most Celebrated English Historians, Particularly M. Rapin Thoyras. The Third Edition, Corrected, and very much Improv'd by the Author

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London: Printed for Tho. Astley..., 1736. 12mo (in 6s), 162 x 96 mms., pp. viii, 231 [232 - 236 adverts], contemporary calf (worn); all leaves before title-page missing, front paste-down end-paper defective, no free rear end-paper, front cover holding by one cord, rear joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped; with the later autograph "Alex Mitchell" on the top margin of the title-page, John Lockman (1698–1771) was a prolific author and translator. He published a number of works in this popular "question and answer" form, and this work was still being reprinted as late as 1811. The Gentleman's Magazine said of Lockman that he translated "with general accuracy, more books for half a century together than any man of his time." He was also an accomplished musician and composer, with oratorios and musical dramas to his credit. This is a reprinting, reimposed, of the English text of a bilingual edition printed by William Bowyer for Vaillant and Astley… Read More
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London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1813. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 211 x 123 mms., pp. iv, recent boards, with paper label on front cover. A very good copy. Christopher Samuel John (1747 - 1813) sports a long string of prestigious associations and honours after his name on the title-page, but otherwise very little seems to be known about him. He was a skillec concholist, botanisst, and amateur astronomer. He asked the Church Missionary Society to send a missionary to India, Charles Theophilus Eward Rhenius (1790 - 1838), to work among the Tamils. This work appears to have been published after his death. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 20731.1.
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Londini, Excudebat Edvardus Griffin, Sumptibus Michaelis Sparke, 1640. 8vo, 171 x 107 mms., pp. [xxiv], 211 [212 blank, 213 - 214 index], [66 "Clavis ad Portam," name obscured with ink on title-page.with separate title-page in English, dated 1739 following Latin, "The Gate of Tongues unlocked and opened...," garishly rebound in quarter red-brown morocco, title in gilt on spine, Cockerell boards. The Czech philosopher John Amos Comenius (1592 - 1670) was an important educator and theologian in 17th century Europe, one of his innovations being that of using native language and graphics for school textbooks rather than Latin. "Comenius's Janua linguarum was one of the most successful pedagogical works of the seventeenth century. Initially published in 1631, it was soon translated into a number of European languages, and quickly came to the attention of Samuel Hartlib, who began a correspondence with Comenius in 1632, and published several of his works. Hartlib was… Read More
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Precis du Systeme, Des Progres et de l'Etat de l'Instruction Publique en Russie Redige d'apres des Documents Officiels

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Varsovie. de l'Imprimerie de la Banque de Pologne, 1837. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Tall 8vo, 250 x 162 mms., pp, [ii], iii [iv blank], 426 [427 - 428 Appendix, 429 - 432 index, 433 Errata, 434 blank], original printed wrappers, uncut and mostly unopened; library stamp on front cover and title-page, edges a bit soiled, but a very good copy. Krusenstern (1807 - 1888), son of the famous Russian admiral, worked in Russia's ministry of foreign affairs; he published this book on Russian education to correct the errors that he found in the expositions of foreign correspondents about Russia. The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal for 1839 reviewed it at length (18 pages), noting that it is the result of solid research among obscure documents and resources: "These considerations would suffice to stamp this literary production as the work of a partisan, and consequently little worthy of our notice, if the author had not had the good sense to resort for support to… Read More
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