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Practical education / by Maria Edgeworth, author of Letters for literary ladies, and The parent's assistant; and, by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, F.R.S. and M.R.I.A. ; In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 432.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child rearing.
- Education.
- Genre:
- Subscription publications.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed by George F. Hopkins, at Washington's Head, for self, and Brown & Stansbury., 1801.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "All that relates to the art of teaching to read in the chapter on tasks, the chapters on grammar and classical literature, geography, chronology, arithmetic, geometry, and mechanics, were written by Mr. Edgeworth, and the rest of the book by Miss Edgeworth. ... The chapter on obedience, was written from Mrs. Edgeworth's notes ... the whole manuscript was submitted to her judgment, and she revised parts of it in the last stage of a fatal disease."--Preface, v. 1, p. vi.
- Vol. 1: vi, [2], 344 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 333, [11] p., 2 leaves of plates. Last page of v. 2 blank.
- Error in paging: v. 2, p. 331 misnumbered 381.
- "Subscribers names."--v. 2, p. [335-343].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 432).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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