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JAMES ELPHINSTON
Education in Four Books
London: P. Vaillant and J. Richardson, 1763. 8vo. (9 x 5½in; 229 x 134mm), in verse, 2 folding engraved plates by T. Morris after G. Marshall, one showing boys playing cricket at Kensington House School (lacks half-title, title slightly waterstained, title and preliminaries a little torn at lower margin, B6 with long tear from margin into bottom line of text, marginal spotting to plates), full brown morocco for Eagar, flat spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: contemporary inscription at head of title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, also issued without the two plates. James Elphinston (1721-1809) was an educationalist who established a school at Brompton in 1753. In 1763, the school was moved "to a site recently occupied by Baron Grant's Mansion" in Kensington, and Elphinston's Education became "an advertisement" for his new academy (see DNB). Cricket features in one plate, and references to it on pp. 52-53 convey the theme that competitive sport should be a part of education. "Nor must who mean a healthful mind to train,/The body's labors or its sports disdain." AN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS. Padwick 6454.
Education in Four Books
London: P. Vaillant and J. Richardson, 1763. 8vo. (9 x 5½in; 229 x 134mm), in verse, 2 folding engraved plates by T. Morris after G. Marshall, one showing boys playing cricket at Kensington House School (lacks half-title, title slightly waterstained, title and preliminaries a little torn at lower margin, B6 with long tear from margin into bottom line of text, marginal spotting to plates), full brown morocco for Eagar, flat spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: contemporary inscription at head of title.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, also issued without the two plates. James Elphinston (1721-1809) was an educationalist who established a school at Brompton in 1753. In 1763, the school was moved "to a site recently occupied by Baron Grant's Mansion" in Kensington, and Elphinston's Education became "an advertisement" for his new academy (see DNB). Cricket features in one plate, and references to it on pp. 52-53 convey the theme that competitive sport should be a part of education. "Nor must who mean a healthful mind to train,/The body's labors or its sports disdain." AN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS. Padwick 6454.
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