Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Border Thirty Years Ago.
London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1860.
Price: $400.00
About the item
First Edition. [4], 312; [4], 320; [4], 331, [1] pp. Thick 8vo. Bound in three quarters tan calf and marbled boards. Some minor foxing, else fine. Wolff 3724; not in Sadleir.
Item #245824
He was the Founer of British System of Popular Education. This is the first of his two novels, the second was Ribblesdale (1874). He wrote a large number of books and pamphlets on social reform including Public Education (1853), Four Periods of Public Education (1862) and Thoughts and Suggestions on Social Problems (1873).
