Boston, January 13, 1858. A.n.s., approx 7 x 5 inches on an unlined bifolium, [1] page. With the original stamped cover. Billhead approx. 5.25 x 8. An evocative and interesting clue to the spread of learning (and to the effects of sectional politics on scholarship) in antebellum America. Benjamin Sherwood..... More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Weatherford Printing Company, May, 1912. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 24, [1] pages. Seven inserted plates. "It was Dr. Baird, I believe, who said that a public museum should be 'a collection of labels with specimens to illustrate them.'" Issued as Educational Paper 1 by the..... More

[Milford, Otsego County, New York, ca. 1817 to mid-1840s]. Two saddle-stitched gatherings bound together with stab-stitched soft doeskin thongs, approx. 13.13 x 8 inches, 40 leaves in autograph ink (with evidence of leaves extracted and a few portions of leaves and text torn out). A few ink diagrams in the..... More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n. d., but 1833?]. Evidently a later printing of this tract. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. A comprehensive plan on the proposed spread and regulation of Sabbath schools through the west and the rural areas. Apparently first published under the pseudonym "Owen"..... More

Chicago: Published by Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street, 1866. First edition of the first number of this juvenile musical quarterly. Small 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine and tips, [ii], 5-61, [2] pages (lacks wrappers; this may be an issue sold in boards). Illus. Each number of this quarterly..... More

Paris: Aux Librairies Protestantes, 1890. First edition. 16mo, original printed blue wrappers, 78, [1] pages. Small map. Evidently an annual report on the work of the pioneering Protestant asylums founded by Calvinist pastor John Bost in La Force in the Dordogne, which took in abandoned and orphaned children, the mentally..... More

(Birmingham, England: Press of Hudson & Son), [ca. 1899]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 4 pages. Promotional material (including testimonials) for this "school for young stammerers" run by Mr. and Mrs. Beasley in Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, "Where Education in all its branches, embracing the highest..... More

St. Louis: VanderHaeghen Lith. [ca. 1855-1859]. First edition. Lithographed broadside, approx. 10.5 x 8 inches, with a variety of accomplished display typefaces. With an approx. 3.38 x 5.75 inch view of the academy at the head of the sheet. An attractice prospectus advertising for students at this Christian Brothers school..... More

Providence [R. I.]: Printed for the Author, by Brown & Danforth, 1822. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 8 pages. “When I first was solicited to publish the following, I had not the most distant thought that I should comply with the request: but after mature deliberation, I...... More

V Olomouci: St. csl. reál. gymnasia v. Olomouci, Tisk Národni knihtiskárna Kramár a Procházka, 1938. First edition. Original silkscreened decorated wrappers, 9.88 x 6.75 inches, 49 pages. An otherwise moderately interesting annual report for this Czech school in Olomouc, here enlivened by the influence of Czech avant garde book design..... More

Hudson [N. Y.]: Published by the Author, No. 287 Warren Street, (1858). First edition. Oblong 8vo (6.13 x 9.88 inches), stitched in original printed wrappers, [ii], 36, [2] pages. Printed music throughout. “Yet I speak to the heart in my radiant bloom, of a Spring that opens beyond the tomb..... More

Boston: Published by A. N. Johnson, 86 Tremont Street, 1852. First edition. Oblong 12mo (4.63 x 7.25 inches), original sheep spine, printed orange boards, 224 pages. Printed music and words. “The arrangement of the Elementary principles, differs entirely from that of any similar work, known to the Editors. The Elementary..... More

[Lexington? n. p., 1867]. First edition. Printed one-page circular on a two leaf folio, autograph address cover to a New Hampshire correspondent with four hand-canceled 3-cent Washington stamps. Large vignette illustration of the Lexington House, the primary school building. An uncommon promotional circular for the upcoming 1867 fall term for..... More