The Pleasing Instructor; Consisting of Select Essays, Relations, Visions, and Allegories.
Published by Joseph Bumstead, Boston, 1795
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.DogStar Books
AbeBooks seller since May 3, 2011
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Condition: Used - Good
US$ 185.00
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12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 312 pages; "New Edition" on the title page; believed the 1st American edition of this pedagogical anthology which went through several editions in England. "Thoughts on education, by way of introduction." at front signed A. Fisher (Ann Fisher Slack). Period calf with partial leather title lable to spine. Front flyleaf has the top 1/3 clipped away presumably to remove ownership; a chip and closed tear to the bottom edge of the same leaf. Contents complete and decent with usual and expected general toning and occasional spotting. Leather crazed somewhat over the spine; some shallow gnawing to the front edge of the lower board. [Evans 29518; Sabin 63412] Uncommon early American imprint of this British pedagogical collection. Good thus.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Pleasing Instructor; Consisting of Select Essays, Relations, Visions, and Allegories.
- Author
- Fisher, A. ; [Ann Fisher Slack]
- Publisher
- Joseph Bumstead, Boston
- Publication year
- 1795
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Leather
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Early American Imprints, Education
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