Education from JimsOldBooks

London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1970. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of brown boards, some foxing to page edges, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A biography of Philip Magnus (1842-1933), an educational reformer and politician. He was an early director of the City and Guilds Institute,… Read more about this item

Oxford: St Hugh's College, 2015. Original owner's gift message on half-title, otherwise a very good clean tight copy in similar dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. A transcript of a diary kept between November 1905 and 1906 by Dorothy Hammonds and Margaret Mowll, two women undergraduates at St Hugh's Hall (now St Hugh's College), Oxford. The diary pages are… Read more about this item

Doylestown, Pennsylvania: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1958. Hardback book in slipcase. Very slight scuffing to corners of the open end of black slipcase but no wear or damage to the book itself. Contains the text of a school journal kept by Rev. Silas Andrews (with some entries by the boys of the school) of Doylestown, Pennsylvania between… Read more about this item

Singapore: Double-Six Press, 1993. Hardback edition. No dustwrapper (as issued?), a small scratch-mark to back cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A history of Gan Eng Seng school in Singapore, founded in 1885 as the Anglo-Chinese Free School for teaching English to Chinese boys but now a co-ed secondary school. 199pp, b&w… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Company, 1914. Third Impression from 1914. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, a previous owner's name on f/ep, pages xxiii to xxvi of the introduction are loose but still present, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book on the Montessori Method. Based on the author's visit… Read more about this item

Umea, Sweden: Umeå Universitetsbibliotek, 1981. Some creasing to the edges of the dustwrapper, minor creasing to the corners of the card cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover Swedish language book. A message written inside front cover signed ''Magnus'' (possibly the author?). 149pp.. Soft Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.