Author: PRECEPTOR.
Title: The Polite Preceptor: Or a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Essays; Selected from The best English Writers, and Arranged in the most natural Order; with A View to inspire into the Minds of Youth the Love of Virtue, and the Principles of true Taste and just Reasoning.
Description: London: Printed for Stanley Crowder..., 1776. 12mo, 171 x 97 mms., pp. x, 374, contemporary calf, gilt sine, fragments of red morocco label; pp. 203 - 206 detached at inner margin, spine faded, top and base of spine chipped. Crowder first published this work in 1774; the second edition appeared in 1779, the third in 1783, a fourth edition in 1788, and a fifth edition in 1795 . This edition thus appears between the first and second edition, but without an edition statement. Most of the extracts are from the standard periodical literature of the period. ESTC T116459 locates copies in BL, NLS, Bodleian; Princeton. All copies are relatively uncommon.

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