Sales catalogue 32: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
November 1949
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 32: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    82 83 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 105 Cranmer Court, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 11 PRIESTLEY (Joseph) An Essay on the First Principles of Government; and on the Nature of Political, Civil and Religious Liberty. Printed for S. Dodsley, 1768. £4 4s 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. viii, 191 [1] pp. Charming engraved vignette on title. This contains Priestley’s important essay on how an authoritative code of education would affect liberty, and social happiness. HERBERT (Edward, Lord of Cirbury) A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil. Printed for W. Bathoe, 1768. £4 4s 4to, ORIGINAL HALF CALF, UNCUT and UNOPENED. FIRST EDITION. viii, 272 pp. IN REMARKABLY FINE ORIGINAL STATE. Now first printed from the author’s MS. Another copy. £3 3s 4to, new qtr. calf. FIRST EDITION. SHERIDAN (Thomas) A Plan of Education for the Young Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain. Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1769. £2 15s 8vo, CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF. FIRST EDITION. Sheridan inveighed against uniform studies and a uniform pace for all children and also believed that the true end of education should be to make good men and good citizens. A FINE COPY, OXFORD. [Caption title]. Remarks on Observations upon the Statute De Vestitu et Habitu Scholastico, signed A Regent. Oxford, April 17, 1770. 10s 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. 12 pp. OXFORD. Remarks on Some Strictures Lately Published, entitled Observa- tions upon the Statute Tit XIV. De Vestitu et Habitu Scholastico: with a Brief State of the Controversy which gave occasion to them. Oxford [no printer], 1770. 10s 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. [ii], 26 pp. [MANDEVILLE (Bernard)] The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits. In Two Volumes. With an Essay on Charity and Charity Schools ; etc. Edinburgh, Printed for }. Wood, 1772. £2 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY CALF. 316, 316 pp. FINE COPY. DILWORTH (Thomas) The Schoolmaster’s Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical in Two Parts.—With: An Essay on the Education of Youth humbly offer’d to the Consideration of Parents. Printed by R. and H. Causton, 1773. 15s 12mo, ORIGINAL EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CANVAS BINDING. Frontispiece. xxiv, 192 pp. ACCOUNT (An) of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 7. and W. Oliver, 1774. 15s 4to, qtr. cloth, marbled paper boards. FIRST EDITION. 124 pp. A valuable and detailed survey. ACCIDENCE (The) or First Rudiments of English Grammar. Designed for the Use of Young Ladies. With an Appendix containing Maxims and Re- flections, etc. By a Lady. Printed for the Author, 1775. f{2 5s 12mo, CONTEMPORARY CALF, gilt floral design on covers and spine, marbled endpapers. First EDITION. ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK. POLITE ACADEMY (The), or School of Behaviour for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in Masters and Misses. Illustrated with Twelve Copper Plate Cuts beautifully engraved. Printed for R. Baldwin, N.D. [c. 1775]. £3 3s 24mo, CONTEMPORARY DUTCH PAPER BOARDS. Twelve engraved plates of positions for a minuet, walking and saluting. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF PERHAPS THE MOST FASCINATING ETIQUETTE BOOK OF THE PERIOD. Cf. The English at School Exhibition No. 318. SHERIDAN (Thomas) Lectures on the Art of Reading; First Part: containing The Art of Reading Prose. Printed for ¥. Dodsley, 1775. £1 15s 8vo, CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF. FIRST EDITION. xii, 392 pp. Nice copy. The projected second part was never published. ASH (John) Sentiments on Education, collected from the Best Writers ; Properly Methodized, and interspersed with occasional observations. In Two Volumes. Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1777. £2 2s 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY CALF, SPINES DECORATIVELY GILT WITH CONTRASTING LETTERING PIECES. FIRST EDITION, ATTRACTIVE COPY.
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