Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline. Third Edition
Dover: Samuel C. Stevens, Publisher, 1826. Hard Cover. Fair. Item #020612
Third edition. Paper covered boards with a leather spine. 112 pp., including appendix. Originally published in England in 1819, Hoare wrote this as a guide for the nursemaid to her children to follow. Louisa Gurney Hoare with a British diarist and author, known for her advocacy of standards in education. This work focuses primarily on the behavior of the child or student, with a little mention on education itself. FAIR/GOOD condition. Heavy chipping, peeling and loss to the paper on the covers, with heavy soiling, staining and scuffing. Extremities bumped and worn. Front endpaper apparently missing. Person's nameplate pasted to the title page and copyright page. Some loss of the front interior pastedown. Paper toned, with scattered foxing throughout. Faint ink relic of a math problem on the last endpaper.
Price: $25.00