The New Pleasing Instructor (11 items)

Newcastle: & J. Robinson, Paternosler, Row, And S. Hodgson, 1795. Bluish Boards, Red Leather Spine Mostly Gone. Library Spine Sticker Affixed With Tape Is All That Holds Binding Together, Both Front And Back Boards Detached. Library Pocket With A Received Date Of July 1 1885 Fep, First Signature Detached But Present. Lots Of Foxing, Brittle. The Detached Signature Includes The Frontispiece Engraving Titled The Bafket Maker, The Title Page With An Engraving On It - Along With Library Stamp, And The First Two Pages Of The Preface. Engraving Page 224 - Santon Barsisa, And On Page 313 Titled The Hermit. Lots Of Staining Throughout Out, Foxing, Brittle Pages. Contents Page Lists Through Page 367. Last Page In This Copy Is 360 - Appears To Be Glued To An Endpaper. So I Would Say There Is An End Signature Missing. The Book As It Is, Once Past The Front Detached Signature, Is Fairly Secure . Poor Copy Of Scarce Title. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Illus. by Plates. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Read more

[S. Hodgson; Newcastle], 1785. Hard. Fair. 12mo. 7. Missing all illustrations (published with 6 copper plates).. Fair. Reading copy only. Missing title page and all plates (possibly never bound in). xii prelims and 355pp. A rare opportunity to purchase this title at a globaly affordable price.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

1770. Leather bound hardback, 2 plates, [2] + iii + [1] + xii + 358 pages. pages. The book is bound in rubbed full calf, the front board is nearly detached along with the browning endpaper, everything else is well bound in. There is some light browning an d light staining to the text.

, [ii], 360 pages, illustrated with 3 black and white plates along with a small illustration on the title page, this being a collection on works from authors such as Alexander Pope,

G. G. & J. Robinson; London and S. Hodgson; Newcastle., 1801. Hard. Good-. 12mo. 7".. With engraved title page, vignette and 5 of 6 coppper plates.. Good-. Contemporaneous calf rubbed and chipped around the corners. Free endpapers are missing. Pastedowns penned upon. xii and 355pp.

London: Printed by R. Harrid, 1808. 12mo, vi, 84pp., woodcut frontispiece, orig. calf-backed boards, rubbed and worn. JISC records a 1808 edition with a Lewes imprint, however, our London imprint is not listed.

London: Published as the Act directs by F. Fisher & T. Slack, [s.d., c. 1800] [2], xi, [1], 348pp. With three engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, without free-endpapers, title page browned. An enlarged edition of a popular compilation of essays intended to assist the moral and spiritual education of young students of both sexes. Arranged by grammarian Anne Fisher (1719-1798), the wife of publisher Thomas Slack, the work proved immensely popular - and as a result was often pirated (including the forgery of Fisher's signature of authentication). The first London edition appeared in 1757. Slack continued to issue editions into the 1790s. . New edition. 12mo.

London: Printed for W. Osborne, and Mozley and Co., Gainesborough, 1792. 12mo. xii, 374 pp. Woodcut-engraved vignette on title. Contemporary calf, backed in vellum, gilt & red morocco spine label (worn, scuffing, edgewear, wear to corners, w/o 4 plates), still a good sound reference copy. Revised & expanded edition of this popular work first compiled by Anne Fisher (1719-1778) who not only ran “The Printing Press” with her husband Thomas Slack, but also operated Fisher’s School for girls in St. Nicholas churchyard, Newcastle, presumably educating all nine of their daughters as well. This pioneering educator, and successful author is perhaps best remembered as the first female Grammarian, and her New Grammar which was first published in 1745 would eventually see 40 different editions. Her educational textbooks, including this volume as well as the New English Tutor, New English Exercise Book, and An Accurate New Spelling Dictionary were a significant contribution to education for young women in… Read more

York: Published by Wilson, Spence and Mawman, [n.d., 1795?]. Later edition, probably pirated, of a book originally published in 1756. There were many reprints of this work, but all are rare. The present edition is cited in five locations, three in the U.K., and two in California (the Huntington Library and UCLA). Modern marbled wrappers. . Twelvemo, in sixes. . Engraved title-page, three engraved plates. Title-page very soiled. A decent copy of a scarce book. Anne Fisher (1719-1778), the wife of Newcastle printer Thomas Slack and the mother of nine daughters, wrote a number of books on education. She "was no mere compiler; she wrote as an experienced educator. Her comments on the teaching of English grammar in the preface of her New Grammar continue to be pertinent and there is a modern ring, too, to her remark, in the introduction to her Pleasing Instructor, that: 'An austere or learned pedant has sometimes whipped Latin, Greek, &c. into a lad, whose very disgust to it increased, perhaps, with… Read more

Newcaslte [sic] Upon Tyne: Printed for Thomas Slack, 1756. [4], x, 330pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf,Rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed. early pen trials to endpapers, without FFEP, very occasional marginal chipping, scattered spotting. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a popular compilation of essays intended to assist the moral and spiritual education of young students of both sexes. Arranged by grammarian Anne Fisher (1719-1798), the wife of publisher Thomas Slack, the work proved immensely popular - and as a result was often pirated. The first London edition appeared in 1757. Slack would continue to issue editions into the 1780s. ESTC records copies of this edition at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Hull), and none elsewhere. ESTC T119327.. Second edition. 12mo.