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Author, Title, Summary Price
Thomas Oliver, D.Sc., Edin.; B.Sc., Lond. [The Border Standard, Galashiels, Scotland]

[Pamphlet.] Avoid Narrow Specialisation: A Lecture. 27th September, 1911. (Reprinted from "The Border Standard.")

15pp., 16mo. Stapled. With stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, or on COPAC.

£70.00
Thomas Bell

"On the Structure and Use of the Submaxillary Odoriferous Gland in the Genus Crocodilus"

7 pp., sm., fol., with plate, in blue wraps, sewn as issued. INSCRIBED by the author: A Mons. A. Brongniart [eminent French chemist, geologist and mineralogist] de la part de l'Auteur".

£50.00
The Rt. Hon. Lord Sheffield [National Education Association]

[Pamphlet.] The Dual System. Proposals for abolishing the "Dual System" in Elementary Schools by an Agreement for the Transfer on Terms of the Church of England Schools.

11 + [1]pp., 12mo. Stapled. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, or on COPAC.

£60.00
The Ven. J. M. Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Rochdale; and Archdeacon of Manchester.

[Pamphlet.] Decentralization and Local Education Authorities. An Address delivered at the Church Congress, Shrewsbury, October, 1896.

5pp., 12mo. Unbound. With stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library or on COPAC.

£60.00
The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley [National Education Association]

[Pamphlet.] The Advantages of the School Board System. By the Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley.

23pp., 12mo. Stapled. Number 65 in a series. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, or on COPAC.

£60.00
Sir Roger Bannister [Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister (born 1929), the first man to run a four-minute mile

[Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a four-minute mile.] Autograph Signature ('Roger Bannister')

Bannister achieved his record on 6 May 1954 at the Iffley Road Track in Oxford, with Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. The signature ('Roger Bannister') is firmly written on a piece of 4 x 9.5 cm paper, laid down on an 11 x 16 cm leaf removed from an autograph album. In good...

£30.00
Rev. Percy Dearmer, M.A. [The Christian Social Union]

Christian Social Union Pamphlet. No. 16. The Reform of the Poor Law.

14 + [1]pp., 12mo. Stapled. Wtih stamp, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. No copy in the British Library, and only three copies on COPAC (Bishopsgate Institute, LSE and King's College London).

£60.00
Shadrach Pryce (1833-1914), Dean of St Asaph, Welsh Anglican priest and educationalist; John Griffiths (1820-1897), Archdeacon of Llandaff, Chairman of the Society for Utilizing the Welsh Language

Pamphlet by Shadrach Pryce, Dean of St Asaph, 'The Welsh Language in relation to Education in Wales'; with handbill address to Sir William Hart-Dyke from John Griffiths, Archdeacon of Llandaff, Chairman of the Society for Utilizing the Welsh Language

Both items are excessively scarce: with no copy of either in the British Library, on COPAC or WorldCat. Both of the present copies carry the stamps, labels and shelfmarks of the Board of Education Library. ONE: Drophead title: 'The Welsh Language in Relation to Education in Wales. | A paper read...

£400.00
Rev. J. H. Thorpe, B.D. [The Church Schools' Emergency League]

[Pamphlet.] Education Acts (Single School Areas) Amendment Bill. With Notes and an Introduction by the Rev. J. H. Thorpe, B.D.

23pp., 12mo, paginated 97-119. Stapled. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.

£60.00
Rev. J. H. Molesworth [Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society]

[Pamphlet.] Travel as a Factor in Education. (Presidential Address, delivered before the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on October 6th, 1902, and re-printed from the Transactions of the Society, Vol. VII., Part III., January, 1903.)

15pp., 12mo. Stapled. In blue printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper.

£60.00
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