London: Printed for R. Hunter, Successor to Mr. Johnson...and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817. First edition. Complete with the half-title. Boards lightly rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, a little minor browning. A very good, clean copy. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges. Gilt, flat spine. Twelvemo. vii, [1.....
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.....
London: Printed for R. Hunter...and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817. First edition. Issued without half-titles. Minor cover staining, small chip at foot of spine of Volume II. Tear expertly repaired on pp. 309-10, affecting text but with no loss. Binding extremities rubbed, occasional light foxing. A good set. Contemporary calf.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition. Bound without the half-titles. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, a few scuffs, intermittent light foxing, some pencil scribbling on back endpapers of Volume I. A very good set overall. Contemporary tan calf. Covers ruled in blind, with gilt armorial device in center of front covers.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1805. Second edition. Joints cracking, but sound. Small chip at head of spine, intermittent light foxing. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester. A very good copy. Contemporary tree calf, gilt-decorated spine. Octavo. [2], 203, [1, ads] pp.
New-York: Printed and published by J. & J. Harper, 1832-4. Harper’s Stereotype Edition, possibly the second American edition. Slade lists American editions published in 1822-5 and 1835-6. With engraved titles and frontispieces. Fore-edge of back cover of the first volume rather worn, minor wear to boards otherwise. Light foxing throughout.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. Third edition, the last one published during Maria Edgeworth's lifetime and with her final corrections. The first edition was published in two volumes in 1820. For this edition, the two volumes were compressed into one and Maria Edgeworth, while leaving her father's portion of the work.....
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.....
