bennett rev john (10 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1829; Philadelphia; leather covered boards with heavy wear and rubbing; bottom half of the spine is missing; rear board is detached but present; front hinge is split; foxing throughout; stains on the pages and page ends; 24 mo 5.75", tall; 334 pages; stick figure drawn on last page;

Contemporary leather binding. Binding rather worn, hinges weak (front hinge holding on cords only), contents browned / foxed, still a very acceptable copy of an interesting book. Please see description or ask for photos.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: Fair. n.p.: [Printed for the Author], n.d. ca. 1780-1830]. Sammelband of three volumes written by John Bennett. 16mo full leather hardcover. 83pp, 106pp, 120pp. Binding copy. Boards warped. Endpages missing. Lacking lower half of title page of "Strictures", not bound with the title pages for the two other volumes. Spine broken with many pages detached from binding. Heavy notation throughout. In polypropylene bag. (Women, Education, Conduct of Life) Inquire if you need further information.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Illustrated by Kittredge, Charmian (illustrator). First Edition. Features: The Vigilance Committee of 1856; The "Camino Real" (poem); The California Frog Ranch of Miss Edith Stege, in Contra Costa County; Cross Saddle Riding for Women; In a Land Still Unmapped (poem); My Lady of Sonora; The Voice of the Machines; By the Hospital (poem); Relampago (story); Comrade-Sweetheat (poem); Chamisal Joe's Scapegoat; Lugo (Story); The Southwest Society, Archaeological Institute of America; The Oakland Ferry (poem); My First Murder (story); Early California Reminiscences, by Gen. John Bidwell, Part VII; The Sequoya League - "To Make Better Indians" - "There is a truly appalling amount of reform needed in the condition of the Indian reservations of Southern California."; The Landmarks Club; In the Lion's Den; That Which is Written (reviews); Hollywood - The City of Homes - with many wonderful photos! [8 ads], 112, [32 ads] pp. Lacking covers, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Fascinating content with many photos and beautifully illustrated vintage ads.; Illustrator; Sm 4to.

83, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Zustand: Removed. Very good. Second American edition. Second American edition. 83, [1] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. ESTC W22365; Evans 25161.

First American edition. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with morocco spine label. A tight, square copy. Contemporary ownership signature of Mary L. Hurd to header of first title page; pencil equations to the rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing and toning throughout, as is common in American imprints of this period; closed tear to the inner margin of 17-18 not affecting text. In all, pleasing and unmarked. Collating xii, 142; [2], 155, [1]: complete, including half and full titles for both. A scarce and early work on women's education, predating the American release of Bennett's Strictures on Female Education by one year, it was one of the earliest and most progressive titles on the subject to be printed in the young Republic. ESTC reports 8 institutions with copies worldwide (and only 2 of the London first edition of 1789). It appears only twice in the modern auction record, in 1986 and 2002. The present is the only copy on the market. The American seminary movement, establishing rigorous institutions for women's higher education, would not begin until 1821. Three decades before, only 15 years into the founding of the Republic, the American release of John Bennett's Letters to a Young Lady helped initiate a conversation about how the new nation would approach the education of its girls. Epistolary in form, the book contains a series of letters from a gentleman to a young woman Lucy after the loss of her mother, to whose care her education would have fallen. The gentleman acknowledges that she likely has plenty of guidance in religion, but that more worldly knowledge is more difficult for women to acquire because of the lack of structures provided to them. Much of what they learn is derived, problematically, from their society: "The education of women is unfortunately directed rather to such accomplishments as will enable them to make noise and sparkle in the world, than to those qualities which might ensure their comfort here," Bennett writes. Boarding schools reinforce this problem, he claims, taking away domestic context and failing to ground their pupils in piety, virtue, and intelligence. Across his letters, he directs Lucy to learn more substantial lessons from the works of the humanists: "The immortal Locke analysed the powers of the human understanding," he tells her at one point. "Mason on self-knowledge is the anatomist of the heart. If you would see yourself in your true colors, you must daily be conversant with these books." Indeed, throughout he guides her on the types of books to read (Locke and Cicero) and those to avoid (Sterne) to take her education into her own hands. One year later, Bennett's more structured Strictures on Female Education would follow up the present title; and it would push readers to see that women could not take on sole responsibility for their learning, but should be provided rigorous, standardized schools designed for that end. ESTC W13575.