Boston: John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1844. 13 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. The Primary School committee was much agitated by the Secretary of the Board of Education, Horace Mann's Seventh Annual Report which complained that there was no real system of education in Boston, specifically that the teachers in..... More
[Minneapolis]: Beard Art Co., Printers, 1897. 27 pp. Sm. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Forty-six alumni updates. A printed note card laid in loose from Knox to 20 alumni requesting they write to two of their members who have not yet responded. Knox was the brother of John J...... More
[Washington D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1921. Broadside. 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. First edition. No. 1616. (Dated Nov. 29, 1921). Harding's proclamation for the first ever observance of American Education Week, which he set as December 4-10, 1921. It was sponsored by the NEA and American Legion. A...... More
Albany: Steam Press of C. Van Benthuysen and Co., 1843. [4], 58 pp. 8vo. Green printed paper wrappers. First edition. An integrated vision of school from structure to textbooks to teachers and training, written during a revamping of New York State education. James Henry, Jr. was Superintendent of Common Schools..... More
Lexington: Printed by Joseph G. Norwood, 1830. 52 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers, removed from a larger volume. Second edition. Presentation copy by the author to educator pioneer W.R. Johnson, Philadelphia. 2000 copies were printed. In a period of concern over education, the report analyses the methods of providing for..... More
Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, (1828). 36 pp. Illus. with woodcuts. 24mo. Illustrated blue-gray paper wrappers, woodcut eagle on front cover. First edition. A well executed and illustrated primer by the Philadelphia firm started by William McCarty and Thomas Davis in 1816. A very good copy with some edge wear to..... More
Augusta: William T. Johnson, Printer, 1851. 171, [1] pp. Illus. with 12 b/w plans, + 2 lvs. with school desk illus. Sm. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Separate printing of this fifth, and next to last, Report. Notes that "It is the imperative duty of every district to employ..... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1839. xlviii pp. 12mo. Stitched plain paper wrappers. First edition. Rare printing of the introduction to this educational undertaking in two series of fifty volumes each, one for juveniles and one for older children and their parents. This introduction maps out the plan of..... More
Albany: Alfred Southwick, Printer, 1839. 30 pp. 8vo. Self wrappers. First edition. Concerns school finances and the requirement that towns apportion monies for the schools. OCLC locates only 12 copies. About very good, edge worn and torn, with light soiling on wrappers, dampstain on top quarter of leaves, and small..... More
Albany: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1844. 48 pp. 8vo. Stitched green paper wrappers. Printed in two columns with index. A complete listing of all laws, regulations, statues, forms, pertaining to common schools in New York. All issued in 1843. Scarce. OCLC locates only two copies: NYPL and Trinity. AAS..... More
Columbus: Printed by P.H. Olmsted, 1825. 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Bill to provide for the support and better regulation of common schools. Scarce. Not at American Antiquarian Society. OCLC shows only seven copies under two accession numbers: Lib. Co. Philadelphia (OCLC: 83023151), Lib. Congress, and five in Ohio..... More
Boston: T.R. Marvin, Printer, 1831. 24 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Concerns religious education especially of ministers. Includes list of members and treasurer's report. Reverend Jonas Perkins was paster of The Union Religious Society of Weymouth and Braintree for 45 years from 1815 to 1860. A very good..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, print. 1836. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. 24th Congress, 1st Session, No. 387. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "bill for the employment of boys in the merchant service of the United States," return the same to the Senate, with amendments..... More
New York: Brown & Wilson, Printers, 1892. 48 pp., [1]. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. The College Settlements Association was formed in 1890, "to bring all college women within the scope of a common purpose and a common work" establishing branches in twelve colleges in the cities of New..... More