Chrestomathia: Being a Collection of Papers, Explanatory of the Design of an Institution, Proposed to Be Set on Foot . . . for the Extension of the New System of Instruction to the Higher Branches of Learning [etc.] [Part I]. Chou C1(2) by Jeremy Bentham - 1816

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London: Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss, Etc., 1816. Parts I and II in one volume: i-x (including Title Page and Contents), iii-xxi (including Preface, Advertisement and Second Preface), Chrestomathic Instruction Tables Table I, Chrestomathic Instruction Tables Table II, 1-98, Chrestomathic Instruction Tables Table II [sic], Table III, Table IV, Table V, 99-347, 1-24 (p. 4 mis-numbered as p. 2), Corrigenda (bound in with verso first). Half leather over marbled boards. Front board and first free end paper are detached, half of spine leather is deteriorated or missing, some gilt from the title and rules are visible. Text block is secure and remarkably clean; paste-downs and end papers foxed and stained, but only light foxing asnd toning throughout that do not affect legibility. All six folding tables are in very good condition, Table I having a closed 5" tear along one crease, not affecting legibility. Book plate of Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York on front paste-down. First edition… Read More

London: Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, by J. M'Creery,, 1816-17. Bentham outlines a programme of secondary education First public edition, a re-issue of the original sheets of the privately-issued part I with a cancel title page, with the first edition of part II, together forming Bentham's main work on education, outlining a secondary school curriculum influenced by Bentham's linguistic theory and philosophy. "In 1814 Bentham became interested in a scheme, sponsored by Francis Place, James Mill, and others, to extend the Lancastrian scheme of instruction to Higher Education. He not only offered his garden as a site for the school, but characteristically sat down at once to write a 'puff' for it. But Place and Mill, knowing full well that Bentham, if left to his own devices, would end in 'writing a good-sized pamphlet if not a volume', got in first with a short prospectus of twelve pages. Bentham therefore devoted himself to a commentary on the prospectus and, when subscriptions… Read More