London: Rudolf Ackermann, 1815. First Edition. A classic book justly famous for its magnificent plates. The plates in this copy are good strong impressions, with intense color. 1,000 copies were printed and issued in 20 monthly parts, appearing first in May 1814. The portraits of Founders were printed separately to..... Read More about A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings

Boston: Privately printed, 1881. First edition. Usually seen in cloth. Pp. 73-158 are notes by the editor, Franklin Sanborn. The first published edition was 1887. Read More about New Connecticut. An Autobiographical Poem

[Amherest , Mass: 1874]. Melvil Dewey was the Class of 1874. Read More about Amherst College. Class of 1874

1919. Annotated in Berrbohm's hand in pencil upper left " 'We are realising that education, as a Latin poet said, is something that changes mind and will. On all sides this doctrine of education is being preached today. We are busy deflecting the mind and will of adults and children..... Read More about An English Working Class Family 1919

Philadelphia: Printed for W. Spottiswood, and H. & F. Rice, Market-street, 1793. Second American edition. Read More about Strictures on Female Education; chiefly as it relates to the Culture of the Heart, in Four...

London: PUBLISHED BY G. BELL, 186 FLEET STREET, 1847. 11 PHOTOS TIPPED-IN. Read More about Chronicles of Charter House. By a Carthusian

London: Published by A. Cobbett, 1838. Read More about A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters; intended for the use of Schools and of...

Baghdad: Printed by the Government Press, 1920. A short didactic anecdote, extracted from the author’s Thoughts on Education, for the benefit of children. An hypocritical mullah receives his comeuppance at the hand of the villagers he has exploited. With an addendum, reading in part: “It is therefore not only necessary..... Read More about A Benefit of Education [Cover title

New York: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, [1960]. This publication was in response to the request for a condensed and less technical version of "Psychiatric Aspects of School Desegregation" Read More about Emotional Aspects of School Desegregation. A Report by Psychiatrists

Np: Circa 1820? Read More about Of the Mensuration of Solids [manuscript caption title of a nineteeth-century manuscript...

New York: Orange Judd, [1871]. First Edition, second printing. The melodramatic adventures of a young schoolmaster in the formative days of Indiana. “His style was concise and clear...and the earlier books are unmarred by the self-conscious ‘literary’ touch which appears in the later ones. Carl Van Doren calls him ‘the..... Read More about The Hoosier School-Master. A Novel

(Glasgow, Scotland): [William Armstrong Fairburn Manuscript Notebook/ Glasgow University], (1896 - 1897). Original manuscript; naval architect and author William Armstrong Fairburn's lecture notes (in Fairburn's ink holograph, with interleaved original charts and graphs), when he was a student (studying naval architecture) at Glasgow University (1896-1897), specially bound for W. A...... Read More about LECTURES: 1896-1897. W[illiam] A[rmstrong] FAIRBURN/ GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. [Lecture notes, in ink...

Honolulu: Mission Press, 1854. Scarce pamphlet commemorating the inauguration of Edward G. Beckwith as president of Oahu College, giving a complete account of the event. The work includes a history of Oahu College (also called Punahou School) which was founded in 1841 by missionaries. "The minutes of the Hawaiian Evangelical..... Read More about Inauguration of Edward Beckwith President of Ohau College, at the Court House, Honolulu,...

[New Market, Virginia]: [Henkel], [circa 1810]. First edition. "Ambrosius Henkel and his brother Solomon founded the Henkel Press at New Market, Virginia, in 1806. Henkel was the first to print a German newspaper in Virginia (1808). The Henkels used many home-made woodcuts in theor books and it is possible that..... Read More about A B C D E F G H ... Lern' den Buchstab' erst recht kennen

New Bedford, [Mass.]: Fessenden & Baker, Printers, 1876. Read More about Historical Sketch of the Friends Academy prepared for the Centennial Year:

[Quebec: 1857]. Manuscript copy of a report on the state of education in the province, originally composed in 1789 by the Bishop of Quebec, presented here in a mid-19th-century copy.  "In this lengthy report the Committee considers the question of education from the most elementary level to the universities and..... Read More about Extrait d'un Journal d'un Comité Du Conseil Chargé de Rapport sur l'objet d'education de la...

Boston: Published by Wilkins, Carter, and Company, 1849. First edition. In his preface, James C. Johnson states: "The unusual, and almost unprecedented poplularity to which floral concerts have attained, is sufficient apology for the appearance of a book designed for them and for juvenile classes in general... The poetry, mostly..... Read More about Juvenile Oratorios: A Collection of Songs, Designed for Floral and Other Concerts, Juvenile...

London: Rivington, 1825. Ninth edition, with corrections and additions. Read More about Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of...

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871. First American edition. The American edition is much scarcer than the first English of the same year. Read More about Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets

Yellow Springs, OH: November 3, 1853. The "father of American public school" writes to accept the invitation of the State Teacher's Association of Ohio to deliver their annual address, and to express his admiration. In part: "I sincerely hope the time has now come when I can establish cordial relations..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("Horace Mann"), to L. Andrews, accepting the invitation of the...

np: nd, but 1950s. 1. 10 O'Clock Scholar (Miller) 2. Jack and Jill (Miller) 3. Old Mother Hubbard (Maxey) 4. There was an old woman (maxey). Read More about Four 1950's Kindergarten Posters

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1808. First Edition. Neef was student of Pestalozzi. Neef opened a school for boys at the village, Falls of Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, in 1809. This book recognized as the first work on educational method to be written in English in the United States:. Read More about Sketch of a Plan and Method of Education, Founded on an Analysis of the Human Faculties, and...

London: E. Gedge, 1803. An acrostic with each leaf comprising three lines of calligraphy as a model to be copied by the student. The present verses beginning: "A rash man oft repents. / Be not envious of any. / Candour becomes all." This version unrecorded in OCLC. Read More about A New and Elegant Set of Round Text Copies. Written for the instruction of Scholars

Winchester: D. Nutt, [1846-1847]. Surprisingly scarce, the work was originally issued in 8 parts and would seem to have been published in a regular issue (£2.2s) and a large-paper colored issue, as here (£4.4s), judging by early advertisements. Includes the wood-engraved plate of college seals in the rear. Read More about Memorials of Winchester College, Drawn & Lithographed by Charles W. Radclyffe

London: Victor Gollancz, 1935. First edition. Attractive copy of this mystery featuring Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, set in the fictional Shrewsbury College at Oxford University, during the women’s college Gaudy or reunion in the summer of 1935. “Did even feminists consider Dorothy Sayers a ‘serious’ twentieth-century novelist until..... Read More about Gaudy Night

Cincinnati: Published by the Executive Committee, 1837. First Edition. Read More about Transactions of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Western Literary Institute, and College of...

London: Chapman and Hall, 1881. First English edition. First edition in publisher's cloth of a novel that draws on Trollope's experiences in America, including his visit to Washington University in St. Louis, and his acquaintance with the school's founder and chancellor, T.S. Eliot's grandfather. The publisher's binding on this copy..... Read More about Dr. Wortle's School

[Albany, New York: Churchill Photo, 1872]. Original photographic class album, for 1872 senior class of Union College, in Schenectady, New York. UNION COLLEGE CLASS OF 1872 PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Original photographic class album, for 1872 senior class of Union College, in Schenectady, New York. The subjects of the seventy-four photographs include..... Read More about ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM FOR UNION COLLEGE CLASS OF 1872

New York: C. Alvord Printer, 1867. First Edition. Lossing was a charter trustee of Vassar College Laid in a 4pp pamphlet fom H.W. Lyman Lady Principal on what a daughter should wear at Vassar. Read More about Vassar College and its Founder

[Cambridge: 1866]. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard. Notable portraits include Gov. Andrew, President Hill, Professers Louis Agassiz, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Evangelinus..... Read More about Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook

vp: 1825-1841. 1. Whitman, John. An Address delivered at the Opening of the School House for the West Female Grammar School, Portland December 4, 1837. 8vo. Portland, 1837. 16pp. 2. Bradford, Alden. An Address, delivered before the Society of [Phi Beta Kappa] in Bowdoin College. Boston, 1841. 52pp. 3. Allen..... Read More about Sammelband of 10 pamphlets bound together, including works by Daniel Webster as well as several...

Boston: Oliver Ditson Co, 1887. First edition thus, "Revised and Enlarged Edition," (unrecorded?) wrappered issue [BAL 22581, "noting printed paper boards, cloth shelfback" issue only; first published in 1885]. In addition to the songs, games and music by Kate Douglas Wiggins, the collection also contains a one-page preface and two-page..... Read More about Kindergarten Chimes, A Collection of Songs and Games Composed and Arranged for Kindergartens and...