Essays on professional education.
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 - 1817)
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207602
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 496 p. ; 4to. Provenance: Nineteenth-century small armorial badge bookplate with motto "Degeneranti genus opprobium" and lettered: "Calke Abbey library" [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt (1795-1844) or his son Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt (1824-86)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full tree calf, gilt-tooled board edges. Sewn on three recessed cords, gilt-tooled on spine. Red leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Edgeworth on education". Text-block edges mottled blue. Blue marbled endpapers. Joints split, boards loose. Spine damaged at headcap, spine label detaching.
Makers and roles
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744 - 1817)