Author: [Massachusetts]. Parker, Leonard Moody
Title: Report of the Commissioners, Appointed by a Resolve of the 22d February, 1825... . "to Digest and Prepare a System for the Establishment of Such an Institution... To Afford Economical and Sufficient Instruction, in the Practical Arts and Sciences...  
Description: n.p. n.p.;, 1826. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 55, [1] pp. 8vo. A quite detailed report on technical education. Signed and dated p. 46: Theodore Sedgwick, L.M. Parker, James Savage. Boston, 9th January, 1826. Includes the drafts of two bills submitted to the Massachusetts General Court: "An act, to establish the Massachusetts Seminary of Practical Arts and Sciences" and "An act, for the encouragement of the practical arts and sciences." OCLC locates 8 copies: Cornell, Trinity, Boston Atheneum, Mass Hist. Soc. Princeton, LCP, AAS, Columbia. American Imprints 25267 & 21364. A very good untrimmed and partially unopened (uncut) copy with loose stitching, a few foxed spots, last leaf creased.

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