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Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
Author: [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Paper chip to upper board. With the ownership stamp of Ida MacAlpine and Richard Hunter (authors of Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry, 1525-1860) to each pastedown, verso of title-page, and foot of final page. Clipping of old bookseller's description pasted to upper flyleaf. Clean and fresh throughout, a Very Good+ copy of an uncommon work promoting the rights of children in education and the home. Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784 - 1836) wrote her guide to early childhood education for mothers and nannies teaching children at home. In preparation for later formal schooling, Hoare directed her readers to instruct children in proper conduct and instill the virtues of justice, independence, and perseverance while respecting their rights and individuality and avoiding harsh punishments. She criticized the common practice of "terrorizing children into obedience by threatening immediate divine retribution" and warned that parents could make religion dull and frightening if they ignored or punished children's natural curiosity into the logic of religious belief (Rosman, Evangelicals and Culture, p. 102). Hoare's ideas were heavily influenced both by her Quaker upbringing and by writers like Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington, and John Locke, the latter of whom she quotes twice on the title-page and several times throughout the work. Hoare was influenced both by Locke's ideas of personal liberty and his observations on the role of education in shaping children's futures ("I think I may say, that, of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education"). Hints for the Improvement of Early Education was extremely popular, running to nineteen editions in England by the late 1870s and even more in the United States. Hoare was born into the Gurney family, a large and prominent clan of English Quakers that included many abolitionists, reformers, and educational advocates. One of those reformers was Elizabeth Fry (1780 - 1845), Hoare's elder sister, who was best remembered for her efforts to reduce the sexual exploitation of incarcerated women, most notably the 1823 Gaols Act mandating sex-segregated prisons. Hoare's family by marriage also included prominent abolitionists like Samuel Hoare (1751 - 1825), her father-in-law, who was a founding member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Very Good +.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Title: Grandfather's Chair
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1841. First edition. Very Good +. Sixteenmo (4 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 124 x 82 mm.). viii, [9] - 140. Publishers basket-weave plum cloth, cream endpapers. Lacking the gilt lettered black paper label on the front cover, spine repaired (possibly recased). Chemised in a quarter dark green morocco slip-case. Nathaniel Hawthorne thrilled nineteenth-century audiences with probing analyses of the legacies of America's colonial and Puritan past on later generations, and it is this perspective that continues to garner admiration today. Here, this charming petite book offers readers a collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical short stories, predominantly set in colonial New England between 1620-1808. Told as a frame story in which a grandfather educates his four descendants, these episodes shed a light on the struggles and joys of people living before and during the American revolution. BAL, 7590; Browne, p. 38. Very Good +.

THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO AND HIS PEOPLE by Baum, L. Frank

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Title: THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MAGICAL MONARCH OF MO AND HIS PEOPLE
Author: Baum, L. Frank
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1913. Very good.. Second edition of the re-issue of A NEW WONDERLAND (1900), brought out under a new title after the success of the Oz books. While MOTHER GOOSE IN PROSE (1897) was Baum's first published children's book, A NEW WONDERLAND was the first children's book he actually wrote - sold only after the former book had come out. In its earliest form, it was one of a number of books published by Baum the same year as his breakout title, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. After Oz proved a sustained phenomenon, publishers re-issued earlier works in hope of capitalizing on the momentum. The name change was hoped to evoke the same stickiness as "Oz": short and punchy. In this it is indicative of Baum's career evolution: when it was first published, A NEW WONDERLAND evoked the established classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND in hopes of finding footing - while this version was meant to echo the new classic, Oz. 9'' x 7''. Original light blue cloth stamped with black-lined white letters, pictorial paste-on. Illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and in-line images. [10], 237, [1] pages. Ink Christmas gift inscription dated 1917 on front fly leaf. A few small stains to cloth, some light edgewear. Hinges expertly repaired, sliver of dampstain to top edge of some leaves.

A Stranger's Shoes by Beach, Marcus

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Title: A Stranger's Shoes
Author: Beach, Marcus
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: n.p, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Typography & illustration by Clyde Van Cleve, Binding supervised by Rudolph Ernst. Fine copy in lightly toned dust jacket. A fine press book and early effort by Clyde Van Cleve, who studied under Lloyd Reynolds, taught at Reed College, and was an influential designer in the Pacific Northwest for many years.

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