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The Popular Educator, a Complete Cyclopaedia of Educational Knowledge in Four Volumes

London , Cassell and Company , c1910. Leather. A uniformly bound complete set of The Popular Educator, comprising of facts, figures, and all subjects used in 'popular education&apos. Featuring one-thousand, four-hundred and twenty-one illustrations and diagrams, twelve folding maps, and a coloured frontispiece to face all eight title pages. Popular education is a concept grounded in notions of class, political struggle, and social transformation. The term is a translation from the Spanish educación popular or the Portuguese educação popular and rather than the English usage as when describing a 'popular television program,' popular here means 'of the people.' More specifically 'popular' refers to the 'popular classes,' which include peasants, the unemployed, the working class and sometimes the lower middle class. The designation of 'popular' is meant most of all to exclude the upper class and upper middle class. Complete with the original eight volumes bound as four. Rebound in half calf bindings with cloth covered boards. Externally, rather rubbed, and with loss to the spines and joints. Light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound, and extremely bright and clean. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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Boeknummer: SET25-G-2

Catalogus: Encyclopaedias

Trefwoorden: Popular Educator Folding Maps Cyclopedia Folding Maps None

W and R Chambers

Chamber&Apos;S Educational Course

London, William and Robert Chambers, 1871. Leather. Three volumes of Chamber's Educational Course. Including: Rudiments of Knowledge (new edition) The Lesson Book of Common Things and Ordinary Conduct (new edition) Introduction to the Sciences (new edition, 1871) Illustrated throughout with numerous vignettes, including some which are coloured (in the colours and tints section). Three volumes bound in one. In a half-morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, sound, though with some rubbing. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of handling marks and foxing. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Boeknummer: LTH5-D-14

Catalogus: Encyclopaedias

Trefwoorden: Knowledge Maths Science Maths None

James Walter White

Flora of the Bristol Coal-Field

Bristol, James Fawn & Son, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A smart copy of this scarce referential work on botany in Bristol, locally printed and published by the Bristol Naturalists Society. Presented in the format of an encyclopaedia, this scarce work presents the over 1,000 species of flora known to inhabit the Bristol Coal-Field area.  Published and printed locally in Bristol for the Bristol Naturalists Society, an still existing organisation that aims to promote the study of natural history in Bristol and the conservation of these environmental sites. It was established in 1862. Edited by James Walter White, the former Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Section of the Bristol Naturalists Society. Containing the bookplate of Harold E. Matthews to the verso of the front free-endpaper, and the ink signature of Harold E. Matthews to the title page. This copy came from the library at Julians Park, Hertfordshire, the previous home of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). She was an English socialite and through her mother was the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. In the original buckram binding with gilt stamping to the front board and spine. Externally, smart, with slight bumping to the extremities. A small bit of adhesive to the tail of the spine and some light shelf wear to the front board. Previous owner's bookplate to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Internally, front hinge is slightly tender to page iv. Book is generally firmly bound. A few spots to the fore-edge and light pencil annotations throughout, but otherwise pages are clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 794J15

Catalogus: Encyclopaedias

Trefwoorden: botany flora bristol coal flora James Walter White Not stated

William and Robert Chambers

Chambers&Apos;S Information for the People

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1849. Leather. A lovely set completing this reference work by William and Robert Chambers, complete in two uniformly bound volumes. A later impression of this work by William and Robert Chambers, initially serialised in 1935 as a cheap reference work for the middle and working classes. A successful publication, which sold seventy thousand issues in its first year. Published before Chambers' most popular work, an extensive and important scholarly undertaking known as one of the most important English encyclopaedias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chambers's reference works gained immense reputation for accuracy and scholarliness; the present volumes focus on subjects of more interest to the common man and pertinent to their self education, with sections on zoology, geography, history, mechanics, arboriculture, and more.With illustrations throughout. No half-titles. In uniform half calf bindings over marbled boards, with decorative gilt to the spine, marbled endpapers. Externally smart with some shelf wear and a minor rubbing to the spine, boards and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very clean with a touch of age toning, as usual. Illustrated in text throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 797A34

Catalogus: Encyclopaedias

Trefwoorden: william and robert chambers encyclopaedia reference encyclopaedia Not Stated