The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of Select Essays, Relations, visions, and allegories collected from The most Eminent English Authors. To which are prefixed, New Thoughts on education. Designed for th Use of Scholls.

[FISHER, Anne]

Verlag: Printed for Thomas Slack, Newcaslte [sic] Upon Tyne, 1756

Beschreibung

[4], x, 330pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf,Rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed. early pen trials to endpapers, without FFEP, very occasional marginal chipping, scattered spotting. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a popular compilation of essays intended to assist the moral and spiritual education of young students of both sexes. Arranged by grammarian Anne Fisher (1719-1798), the wife of publisher Thomas Slack, the work proved immensely popular - and as a result was often pirated. The first London edition appeared in 1757. Slack would continue to issue editions into the 1780s. ESTC records copies of this edition at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Hull), and none elsewhere. ESTC T119327. Size: 12mo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ29181

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining ...

Verlag: Printed for Thomas Slack, Newcaslte [sic] Upon Tyne

Erscheinungsdatum: 1756

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: Second edition.