Author: Simpson, James [1781 - 1853] Title: NECESSITY Of POPULAR EDUCATION, as A National Object; With Hints on the Treatment of Criminals, and Observations on Homicidal Insanity
Description: Boston: Marsh Capen & Lyon, 1834. 1st edition thus. Original brown cloth with paper spine label. xii, [13] - 262 pp, 8vo. VG (bit of extremity wear/spine label has some chipping/contemporary pos on front paste-down). Simpson, an acquiantance of Scott, known for his agitation for educational reform, and lectured widely in Scotland & England on the subject. This imprint not in American Imprints (see 26786 for the NY imprint).
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Price: US$ 192.50 Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA
- Book number: 11401
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