Search Results: practical education by edgeworth maria and

Paperback / softback. New.

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

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

London: R Hunter and Others, 1822. A new edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. Type: Book pp xvii, 396; 488 + drawings. Half bound in red leather with red cloth boards. Excellent marbled end papers and a small armorial book plate, gilt titles and decoration and raised bands to spine. Internally fine, marbled edges.

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

New York: George F. Hopkins, 1801. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Volume I only. Good in full leather with marbled endpapers and book edges, leather is split at the top and bottom of the front outer hinge and a two inch split in the center of the rear outer hinge, pages are in very good condition with some browning and pages at the back are slightly wrinkled.

London: J. Johnson, 1801 Second Edition. In three volumes. Some wear to full leather boards. VG+. Cloth.

J.Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover: Volumes 1 and 2 bound toghether into one volume. Rebound in Light blue tweed-like cloth which is rubbed and faded, with title on spine in gold boxed in blue. Slight edgewear. New marble design endpapers are rubbed on front pastedown from removed book plate.Title and text pages are foxed. Page 387 starts volume two. Fascinating text. Nice tight binding. .

NY: Printed by George F. Hopkins, for Self, and Brown & Stansbury, 1801. First American edition (published the same year as the English). 8vo. 2 volumes: vi, (2), 344; (4), 333, (9) pp. Three engraved plates; subscribers list (includes John Adams). "Presenting in a number of discursive essays a modification of the theories started by Rousseau's Emile" (DNB). Recent brown quarter-calf and marbled boards, leather spine labels. A fresh copy in an attractive new binding.

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… Read More

London: J. Johnson, 1801. Hardcover. Fine. Published 1801. 3 volumes, contemporary tree calf, a particularly fine set. Ownership signature of Olivia Bernard Sparrow: Born Lady Olivia French Acheson in ca. 1778 at Mullaghbrack, County Armagh in  Ireland,  she was the daughter of Arthur Acheson, 1st Earl of Gosford, and married Brigadier Robert Sparrow in 1797, settling at Brampton Park in Huntingdonshire. In 1834 she opened a church day school in Leigh. The children of Hadleigh were also admissible to the school, and thus Lady Sparrow and Herschell ensured that many of the poorer children of Hadleigh and Leigh were taught to read and write. Nice association copy between two Irish women interested in education.

London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1811 Third edition of "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). This edition, like the second, was revised by the authors, as enumerated in the "Advertisement to the Third Edition." It contains additions and omissions, and the chapter on Arithmetick has been revised. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spines stamped in gilt. . Two volumes, octavo. . With one plate in Volume I, opposite p. 56, and two folding plates at the end of Volume II. Light dampstain to lower edges of covers, extending to text occasionally. A good copy. Maria Edgeworth's sister Anna Beddoes' copy, signed by her on the front pastedown of Volume I, and on the title-page to Volume II. She later gave the volumes away, adding in the first volume "to C.H. Blandford "This book…has a real value in the history of education. Mr. Edgeworth's interest in the subject… Read More

London: Printed for J. Johnson.. 1798 First edition of Maria Edgeworth's first publication, produced with her Lunar Society father. Muirhead calls this "the most important work on general pedagogy to appear in this country between…Locke's Thoughts …and Herbert Spencer's Essay in 1861" (The English School, 57). The Edgeworths were the preëminent disciples of the educational theories of Rousseau in England. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine, tooled in compartments, olive morocco label, edges stained red, brown paper endpages. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight wear to boards. Two volumes in one, thick quarto. Illustrated with one diagram and two folding plates. Both joints starting to crack, but sound. Itermittent very light foxing, slight offsetting to plates. Early armorial bookplate, ink signature dated 1872 on a preliminary blank. A very good copy. Possibly a large paper copy, with wide margins. "In the preface to Practical Education the authors stated that… Read More