Lessons Shells, Used (6 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Significant work from Elizabeth Mayo enlisting her transgressive teaching methods to the topic of conchology. With ten illustrated plates. Second edition.In publisher's original cloth binding.With ten monochrome plates to the rear of the book. Collated, complete.Author not stated, authorship confirmed from a copy held by the University of Oxford Libraries.Ink inscription to title page, dated 1844.This copy also features a bookplate to the front paste down, "Sold at White & Sons Circulating Library Camarthen". Circulating libraries were widely popular in the Victorian era, especially among the middle class, the most successful being W. H. Smith and Son's Subscription Library.From significant teacher and educational reformer, Elizabeth Mayo. This text, as well as its precursor Lessons on Objects, expertly utilises example teacher-student dialogues to present a new method of teaching infants. She is also known for her role in the Home and Colonial School Society, founded on Pestalozzi's principles of teaching. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with rubbing resulting in moderate loss of cloth most noticable to the spine. Small bookplate from White & Sons Circulating Library Camarthen to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Ink inscription dated 1844 to title page. Pages generally bright and clean with spotting concentrated towards the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

Elizabeth Mayo (1793 Ð 1865) was an educational reformer and writer who played a major role in popularizing the theories of Pestalozzi in England. Mayo and her brother Charles (1792 Ð 1846) also ran an evangelical school based on theories that Charles had learned from Pestalozzi. Mayo wrote her two most successful books, Lessons on Objects (1830) and the present work, based on the Pestalozzian method of the object lesson, which developed observational skills through the careful examination of objects. These two books were the first of their kind in England, and popularized the use of the object lesson for generations of teachers. While running the school in Cheam with her brother, Mayo developed a lifelong interest in early childhood education and the teaching methods best suited for that age group. In 1843, Mayo began working at the Home and Colonial Infant School Society in London, where she became the first woman in England to be employed in teacher training. She developed lesson plans, supervised curricula, and acted as a general consultant at the institution. The institution offered a broad course to prepare students to teach grammar, math, geography, the arts, and physical education. By the late 1840s, the Home and Colonial Society provided teachers to early childhood education programs all across England, and was widely distributing lesson plans and teaching materials to schools as well. Octavo. xiii, [2], 228 pp. With ten lithographed plates of shells. Preface by Charles Mayo, the authorÕs brother. Also, with the authorÕs preface to the second edition. PublisherÕs blue cloth. Some sunning to spine and dustsoiling to top edge. Some foxing to plates and to first few leaves and light marginal toning. Partially unopened. A very good copy. Third edition. First published by Seeley in 1832. In the Oxford DNB, Janet Shepherd writes, ÒElizabethÕsÊemphasis on structure, at a time when early years teaching tended to be unsystematic, secured her importance in the history of infant education.

Elizabeth Mayo (1793 Ð 1865) was an educational reformer and writer who played a major role in popularizing the theories of Pestalozzi in England. Mayo and her brother Charles (1792 Ð 1846) also ran an evangelical school based on theories that Charles had learned from Pestalozzi. Mayo wrote her two most successful books, Lessons on Objects (1830) and the present work, based on the Pestalozzian method of the object lesson, which developed observational skills through the careful examination of objects. These two books were the first of their kind in England, and popularized the use of the object lesson for generations of teachers. While running the school in Cheam with her brother, Mayo developed a lifelong interest in early childhood education and the teaching methods best suited for that age group. In 1843, Mayo began working at the Home and Colonial Infant School Society in London, where she became the first woman in England to be employed in teacher training. She developed lesson plans, supervised curricula, and acted as a general consultant at the institution. The institution offered a broad course to prepare students to teach grammar, math, geography, the arts, and physical education. By the late 1840s, the Home and Colonial Society provided teachers to early childhood education programs all across England, and was widely distributing lesson plans and teaching materials to schools as well. Octavo. xiii, [2], 228, [16, publisherÕs ads] pp. With ten lithographed plates of shells. Preface by Charles Mayo, the authorÕs brother. Also, with the authorÕs preface to the second edition. Contemporary brown straight-grained cloth. Dustsoiling to cloth and some chipping to head and tail of spine. Very clean and fresh throughout, aside from some light foxing to plates (as usual). Ink gift inscription (dated 1909) to a Helen Wigham on front flyleaf. A very good copy. Third edition. First published by Seeley in 1832. In the Oxford DNB, Janet Shepherd writes, ÒElizabeth'sÊemphasis on structure, at a time when early years teaching tended to be unsystematic, secured her importance in the history of infant education.Ó.

Contemporary full calf with gilt line border, spine in five compartments of raised gilt-lined bands and gilt-framed floral motifs, gilt red morocco title label on two, board edges and inner dentelles blind-tooled. , Size : 8vo. , Complete with 37 original hand-coloured engraved plates of various types of shells, accompanied by detailed descriptions in the text., P. (4), blank, frontis, title, printer?s imprint, dedication, blank, description of frontis, blank, contents vii-viii, introduction ix-xii, classification xiii-xv, blank, 1-207, printer?s imprint, advertisements (2), (4). Upper board hinges started, still bound with string to spine, corners bumped, lower board stained, browning to fore-edges of early and final leaves, however not affecting text and plates; a very good copy, text and plates are clean and crisp.