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Practical Education
by Edgeworth, Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, F.R.S. and M.R.I.A
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Modern quarter brown morocco , gilt morocco spine label, spines ruled in gilt, with raised bands (in six compartments), contempo
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About This Item
London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Curch-Yard, 1798. First edition. pp. x (including half-title page), [ii], 385; [iv] (including half-title page), [388], [21] (including index and leaf of corrections) [lLACKING the three engraved plates, and one leaf of text (in volume one)]. 2 vols. 4to. Modern quarter brown morocco , gilt morocco spine label, spines ruled in gilt, with raised bands (in six compartments), contemporary marbled paper-covered boards,Owner's contemporary engraved bookplate on front pastedown of volume one. Both volumes have been expertly rebacked with modern brown calf, new endpapers, contemporary marbled paper-covered boards are moderately rubbed, bit of faint scattered foxing to a few pages of text, else very good, with the text otherwise fresh and clean. First edition. pp. x (including half-title page), [ii], 385; [iv] (including half-title page), [388], [21] (including index and leaf of corrections) [lLACKING the three engraved plates, and one leaf of text (in volume one)]. 2 vols. 4to. PRACTICAL EDUCATION BY MARIA EDGEWORTH. Muirhead states: "The most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between... Locke's Thoughts... and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861" [Muirhead. The English at School, 57]. Maria Edgeworth is also the author of a number of novels and books for children, including Parents Assistant (1796), Early Lessons (1801), Moral Tales (1801), Harry and Lucy (1825), etc. In 1809 she collaborated with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, on Essays on Professional Education [see Welch. Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, p. 167]. Slade 3A
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 339135
- Title
- Practical Education
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, F.R.S. and M.R.I.A
- Format/Binding
- Pp. x (including half-title page), [ii], 385; [iv] (including half-title page), [388], [21] (including index and leaf of correct
- Book Condition
- Used - Modern quarter brown morocco , gilt morocco spine label, spines ruled in gilt, with raised bands (in six compartments), contempo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Curch-Yard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1798
- Keywords
- Education | British | Women | Incompletes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Social Thought;
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