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. The First American Edition.

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Title 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. The First American Edition.
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Signed Author 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.
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Volumes 2
Pagination I vi, 344; II 333
Date of Publication 1801
Edition Statement The First American Edition.
Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1798
Imprint Printed by George F. Hopkins, at Washington's Head, for self, and Brown & Stansbury.
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Location of Printing New York US
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Length (cm) 23
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Notes AAS 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].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Includes bibliographical references.
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American Antiquarian Society Dated Books copy 1 in publisher's boards with printed paper spine labels. Inscribed: Isaiah Thomas, to the Am. Antiq'n. Society, 1820.
American Antiquarian Society Dated Books copy 2 in brown leather binding with gold-tooled spines. Vol. 1 has label affixed inside upper cover: Brown & Stansbury book binders & sellers no. 114 Water Street New York. Inscribed: Clement C. Biddle's.
American Antiquarian Society Bindings Coll.B copy in brown stained leather binding with gold-tooled spine and lettering pieces. Vol. 1 has label affixed inside upper cover: Brown & Stansbury book binders & sellers no. 114 Water Street New York. The bequest of Michael Papantonio, 1978. Inscribed: W.T. Williams; For the Ladies Library in Lebanon by Wm. T. Williams Esqr. No. 77[-78]--price $2--.
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Edgeworth, Maria, Edgeworth, Richard Lovell. 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. The First American Edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17317, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17317. Accessed 2024-11-21. 

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  title={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. The First American Edition.},
  publisher={George Folliet Hopkins \& Brown and Stansbury},
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