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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    118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 EDGEWORTH (Maria and R. L.) Practical Education. The Second Edition in Three Volumes. Printed for 7. Johnson, 1801. £1 15s 3 vols., 8vo, CONTEMPORARY CALF, SPINES GILT. This edition was revised by the authors. VERY FINE COPY. WITHERSPOON (John) A Series of Letters on Education. Bristol: Printed by F. Rose, 1798. £3 3s 24mo, qtr. calf, marbled sides. First ENGLISH EDITION. ‘The first edition had been printed in New York the previous year. The author was President of Princeton College. At the end is a poem by Dr. Cotton on education. This little book, perhaps because of its size, is VERY SCARCE, and we’ve seen only one other copy. MORE (Hannah) Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune. In Two Volumes. Printed for T. Cadell, 1799. £1 15s 2 vols., 8v0, ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, spines repaired. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE IN UNCUT STATE. MORE (Hannah) Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. With a view of the Principles and Conduct prevalent among Women of Rank and Fortune. In Two Volumes. Printed for T. Cadell, 1799. £1 10s 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY HALF RUSSIA. FIRST EDITION. — The same. Second Edition Corrected. JT. Cadell, 1799. £1 1s 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY HALF GREEN MOROCCO. ——— The same. Ninth Edition. A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1801. 16s 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY POLISHED CALF. WITH PLATES PROBABLY BY WILLIAM BLAKE. SALZMANN (C. G.) Gymnastics for Youth, or a.Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools. An Essay towards the necessary Improvement of Education, chiefly as it relates to the Body. Translated from the German. Illustrated with Copper plates. Printed for ¥. fohnson, 1800. £4 4s 8vo, CONTEMPORARY CALF, rebacked. First ENGLISH EDITION. xvi, 433 pp. Folding engraved frontispiece and NINE OTHER CHARMING ENGRAVED PLATES BY WILLIAM BLAKE of leaping, climbing rope, wrestling, trundling hoop, balancing, etc. KEYNES No. 121 in Bibliography of William Blake who says these engravings are usually attributed to Blake and their style shows strong evidence of Blake’s work. In any case A DELIGHTFUL VOLUME. PLEASING PRECEPTOR (The) ; or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics adapted to the Capacities of Youth taken chiefly from the German of Gerhard Vieth. Illustrated with cuts. [Two Volumes]. Printed for G. G. and F. Robinson, 1800-1801. £1 1s 2 vols., 12mo, CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF. FIRST EDITION. Cuts in text and 3 plates. xii, 256, iv, 232 pp. VINCENT (William) A Defence of Public Education. A. Strahan, 1801. 12s 6d 8vo, sewn. FIRST EDITION. [ii], 46 pp. The author was Headmaster of Westminster. THE BLAGDON CONTROVERSY. MORE (Hannah) and others. BERE (Thomas) The Controversy between Mrs. Hannah More and the Curate of Blagdon; relative to the Conduct of her Teacher of the Sunday School. W..Hughes, 1801. SHAw (William) Suggestions respecting a Plan of National Education. Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1801. ELTON (Sir Abraham) A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Bere occasioned by his late unwar- rantable attack on Mrs. Hannah More. Cadell and Davies, 1801. LAYMAN (A.) The Blagdon Controversy, or Short Criticisms on the Late Dispute relative to Sunday Schools, and Monday Private Schools. Bates, for the Author, 1801. BERE (Thomas) An Appeal to the Public on the Controversy. Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1801. Expostulatory Letter to Sir Abraham Elton. Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1801. A Statement of Facts relative to Mrs. H. More’s Schools, occasioned by some late Misrepresentations. Bath, S. Hazard, 1801. Bere (Thomas) An address to Mrs. Hannah More on the Conclusion of the Blagdon Controversy. Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1801. The Force of Contrast, or Quotations accompanied with Remarks submitted to the Consideration of all who have interested themselves in what has been called the Blagdon Controversy. Bath, S. Hazard, 1801. £4 15s 9 vols. in 1, 8vyo, CONTEMPORARY HALF CALF. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. This violent controversy seems to have arisen from the charge that Hannah More’s Sunday Schools had a Methodist tendency. There was much muck-raking of village scandal, no quarter was given, and Hannah More, used to fulsome praise, was severely handled and complained she had been “battered, scalped, and tomahawked.”’ see D.N.B. COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTIONS OF ALL THE PAMPHLETS, SUCH AS THE ONE LISTED, ARE SCARCE,
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