DIX, DOROTHEA LYNDE - Conversations on common things; or, Guide to knowledge. :With questions. : For the use of schools and families. / By a teacher. [Three lines from Locke] Second edition, revised and Corrected
Boston, Published by Munroe and Francis, 128 Washington-Street, 1826, Second Edition. Hard Cover, 16 cm. 288 p. [1] leaf of plates. Ill.: Johnston, David Claypoole. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ Frontispiece plate etched on metal by David Claypool Johnston, first used in this edition. A serious attempt to introduce children at an early age to a rational, scientific way of explaining the phenomena of the world and our technology. Ms. Dix was very important crusader for children's right to learn [both boys and girls] for the rights of prisoners and the conditions under which they were kept, and of course for temperance. The book is graced by a wonderful emblematic etching by D.C. Johnston on the HT where she is represented as opening out the world of knowledge to a little girl. Johnston could be a mean cuss when he wanted to. In this case he wanted to show Ms. Dix in her most positive guise. S. & S. 24356, RLIn 1 Loc, OCLC 5 Locs [ TYC, AQM, HMG, UPM, PIT]. Binding rubbed but over all a Very Good copy of a significant book difficult to find.
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