THE LONDON VOCABULARY, ENGLISH AND LATIN: PUT INTO A NEW METHOD, PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE LEARNER WITH THINGS AS WELL AS PURE LATIN WORDS. ADORNED WITH TWENTY-SIX PICTURES. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
by (BINDINGS - SCHOOLROOM BURLAP, 18TH CENTURY). (EDUCATION). GREENWOOD, JAMES
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London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, F. & C. Rivington, R. Baldwin, G. & T. Wilkie, and J. Walker, 1797. 21st Edition. 150 x 93 mm. (5 7/8 x 3 5/8"). viii, 123, [1] (ads) pp.
Contemporary brown burlap, flat spine. With allegorical vignette on title page and 25 half-page woodcuts illustrating items from the vocabulary lists. Pastedowns with traces of book label removal. ◆Spine slightly cocked, short split to cloth on rear joint, a little fraying at ends of spine, but the insubstantial binding surprisingly solid. Two small stains to each pastedown (where labels removed), title page lightly browned, leaves a shade less than bright (due to paper quality), other minor imperfections, but an excellent copy internally, clean and fresh with comfortable margins. All in all, remarkably well preserved.
First issued around 1711, this is the best-selling work of James Greenwood (1683?-1737), an influential grammarian and a proponent of women's education. Arranged into 33 chapters, the book divides vocabulary lists by topic, beginning with "things" and proceeding through minerals, plants, animals, humans, and diseases, to everyday items, affairs of church and state, the law, the military, and finally to the various parts of speech, from verbs to conjunctions. Widely used, the work was revised and reprinted until at least 1828. At about the time this work was originally issued, Greenwood had founded a school in Essex where he accepted girls as well as boys as pupils; he was later recruited to serve as assistant headmaster at St. Paul's School in London. This volume is of particular interest because of its rarely seen utilitarian period binding. We would have expected it to have been worn to shreds long ago, but, against the odds, it has withstood hard use by young pupils remarkably well, and it gives us a glimpse of an important element of the English schoolroom at the turn of the 19th century..
Contemporary brown burlap, flat spine. With allegorical vignette on title page and 25 half-page woodcuts illustrating items from the vocabulary lists. Pastedowns with traces of book label removal. ◆Spine slightly cocked, short split to cloth on rear joint, a little fraying at ends of spine, but the insubstantial binding surprisingly solid. Two small stains to each pastedown (where labels removed), title page lightly browned, leaves a shade less than bright (due to paper quality), other minor imperfections, but an excellent copy internally, clean and fresh with comfortable margins. All in all, remarkably well preserved.
First issued around 1711, this is the best-selling work of James Greenwood (1683?-1737), an influential grammarian and a proponent of women's education. Arranged into 33 chapters, the book divides vocabulary lists by topic, beginning with "things" and proceeding through minerals, plants, animals, humans, and diseases, to everyday items, affairs of church and state, the law, the military, and finally to the various parts of speech, from verbs to conjunctions. Widely used, the work was revised and reprinted until at least 1828. At about the time this work was originally issued, Greenwood had founded a school in Essex where he accepted girls as well as boys as pupils; he was later recruited to serve as assistant headmaster at St. Paul's School in London. This volume is of particular interest because of its rarely seen utilitarian period binding. We would have expected it to have been worn to shreds long ago, but, against the odds, it has withstood hard use by young pupils remarkably well, and it gives us a glimpse of an important element of the English schoolroom at the turn of the 19th century..
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- THE LONDON VOCABULARY, ENGLISH AND LATIN: PUT INTO A NEW METHOD, PROPER TO ACQUAINT THE LEARNER WITH THINGS AS WELL AS PURE LATIN WORDS. ADORNED WITH TWENTY-SIX PICTURES. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
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- (BINDINGS - SCHOOLROOM BURLAP, 18TH CENTURY). (EDUCATION). GREENWOOD, JAMES
- Book Condition
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- 21st Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, F. & C. Rivington, R. Baldwin, G. & T. Wilkie, and J. Walker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1797
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
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