The history, choice, and method of studies / by Monsieur Fleury ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleury, Claude, 1640-1723.

Contributor:

Keble, Samuel, bookseller.

Hindmarsh, Joseph, active 1678-1696, bookseller.

Sare, Richard, -1724, bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Traité du choix et de la méthode des études. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Study skills--Early works to 1800.

Study skills.

Education--Curricula--Early works to 1800.

Education.

Education--History--Early works to 1800.

Comparative education--Early works to 1800.

Comparative education.

History.

Education--Curricula.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 17th century.

Penn Provenance:

Taylor, Robert, 1760-1839 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Taylour, Robert, 1760-1839 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Smith, Thomas (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 188 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Choice and method of studies

Fleury on studies PU

Fingerprint:

h,ry ofn- hes, ofmo (3) 1695 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Keble ...; John Hindmarsh ...; D. Brown ...; R. Sare ..., 1695.

Summary:

First English edition, translated from the French, of this wide-ranging survey of educational methods, which includes chapters on education in classical times, education in the Arab world and the education of women.

Notes:

"John Hindmarsh" in the imprint is a misprint. The name of the bookseller is Joseph Hindmarsh. Cf. ESTC.

With side-notes.

Catalog of "books printed for, and sold by Richard Sare and Jo. Hindmarsh" on p. [189]-[191].

Signatures: A-N⁸.

Leaf A2 signed A3.

Last page blank.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the armorial bookplate, with the motto "Consequitur quodcunque petit", of "Genl. Honble. Robert Taylor", also identified as Robert Taylour, affixed to the front paste-down endpaper. His initials, RT, along with the crest of the coat of arms, a couped arm holding an arrow, are stamped in gilt on the spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has a ms. inscription on the title page, which reads "D.D. [...] Thomas Smith", followed by a price.

Cited in:

ESTC, R18281

OCLC:

5537619