£50
12mo, pp. xvi, 126, [2] + portrait frontispiece. Later half calf, purple cloth boards, black vertical label. Lightly soiled. Boards marked and rubbed, head of spine chipped, most of label lost revealing different gilt title underneath. Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society rules label to pastedown, their gilt stamp to foot of spine.
A scarce short treatise on education for the lower classes by B. F. Duppa (1801-1840), British agent for the influential Swiss educationalist P.E. von Fellenberg. He argues for the creation of agricultural schools based on the Swiss model. Library Hub locates four copies, at Cambridge, Manchester Public, LSE, and the BL. This copy seemingly reuses a binding intended for another work - the spine underneath the lost section of label is lettered in gilt '[]TH'S ALSTON MOOR &C'.
