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Author, Title, Summary Price
Rev. B. F. Smith, Archdeacon of Maidstone [The Church Congress]

[Pamphlet.] The Result of the Neglect of Religious Instruction in Elementary Schools. An Address delivered at the Folkestone Church Congress, Wednesday, October 5th, 1892.

4pp., 12mo. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.

 £45.00
Most Rev. T. L. Williams, M.A., Archbishop of Birmingham [National Union of Teachers]

[Pamphlet.] Some Problems connected with the Reorganisation of Non-provided Schools. An Address delivered to the Meeting of the Non-Provided School Teachers at the Margate Conference of the N.U.T., 1938.

7pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. Stapled. With shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC at the British Library.

 £40.00
Professor W. E. Dalby [William Ernest Dalby], M.I.Mech.E. [J. Hartley Wicksteed, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers]

[Pamphlet.] The Education of Engineers in America, Germany, and Switzerland. Excerpt Minutes of Proceedings of the Meeting of the Institutution of Mechanical Engineers, in London, 24th April 1903.

69pp., 8vo, paginated 281 to 349. In brown printed card covers. With shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and worn paper. Scarce: no copy at the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at the Institution of Mechanical...

£75.00
Lester Piggott (born 1935), English flat racing jockey, winner of the Epsom Derby nine times; Jack Dowdeswell (c.1917-2011), winner of the National Hunt jockeys' championship in 1946-47; Alan Thirlwel

[Lester Piggott and Jack Dowdeswell, jockeys; Alan Thirlwell, golfer.] Autograph Signatures laid down on leaf from album, Thirlwell's on a printed card sent after his victory in the 1954 English Amateur Golf Championship.

The three items laid down on an 11 x 17 cm leaf removed from an album, with the signatures of Dowdeswell and Piggott on one side, and that of Thirlwell on the other. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Piggott's signature ('Lester Piggott') is on a 4 x 9 cm piece of pink paper, on the same...

£56.00
James Sully (1842-1923), English pioneer psychologist and philosopher [Bernard Perez (1836-1903)]

[James Sully, pioneer psychologist.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to the publishers W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., regarding his editing of a translation of Bernard Perez's 'First three Years of Childhood'.

The three items in good condition, on aged paper. The second letter is addressed to 'Messrs Sonnenschein & Co', and from the context the other two are clearly to the same recipients.ONE: 2pp., 12mo. He states that he would be 'willing to edit Perez's work provided that the translation is...

£320.00
George A. Spottiswoode [Spottiswoode & Co., printers]

[Pamphlet.] A Scheme for meeting the Religious Difficulty in all Public Elementary Schools, and for affording adequate Financial Relief to Voluntary Schools.

8pp., 12mo. Stitched. With stamps, shelfmark and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC at Oxford.

 £60.00
Henry Corby, B.A., M.D., M.Ch., F.O.S.L., Professor, Queen's College, Cork

[Pamphlet.] Technical Education: A National Necessity. Its Uses and Advantages.

38pp., 8vo. Stapled. In printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.

 £70.00
J. H. Reynolds, Director and Secretary, Technical Instruction Committee, Manchester

[Pamphlet by the City of Manchester Technical Instruction Committee.] Report of a Visit to Technical Colleges, Institutions, Schools, Libraries, Museums, and Works in the United States and Canada, April and May, 1898.

67pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. With stamp, shelfmark and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, otherwise in fair condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. No copy in the British Library; six copies on COPAC.

 £60.00
F. H. Pruen, M.A., Secretary to the University of Durham Secondary Schools Committee, Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

[Pamphlet.] University of Durham. Secondary Schools Committee. Regulations for the Award of Higher Certificates, 1920.

27pp., 12mo. Stapled. In pink printed wraps. With stamps, shelfmarks 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.

 £60.00
G. E. Shuttleworth, B.A., M.D., &c., President Thames Valley Branch, British Medical Association, formerly Medical Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster

[Pamphlet.] Mental Overstrain in Education. Reprinted frrom The Lancet, August 22, 1896.

11pp., 12mo. Stitched. With stamp, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library, and the only copy on COPAC in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons.

 £45.00
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