EDUCATION: INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. (Spine title: "Education by Herbert Spencer.")

Language: English

Published by D. Appleton and Company,, New York:, 1866

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Early reprint of the 1860 first edition. i-xx, 21-283, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 20.25cm x L 13.5cm. Original dark green cloth; small cloth loss at top left corner of rear board; 1.5cm chip at spine heel leaving underlying quire tips exposed; boards rubbed with corners well bumped; strong wear to cloth along top edge of front board. Mild moisture stain at top edges of interior leaves from front endpapers ever diminishing to page 100 or so; moderate to strong foxing/toning upon interior leaves; several page corners creased from fold-downs. A good+ copy. Preface states that text's four chapters "originally appeared as four review articles: the first in the 'Westminster Review' [July 1859], the second in the 'North British Review' [May 1854], and the remaining two in the 'British Quarterly Review'" [April 1858 and April 1859] (dates supplied by Harvard University's online library catalog). Four pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. Four-line antiquarian ink inscription upon front free endpaper: "Georgia P. Young | Ingleside | Miss | Dec 14th 1867" with additional ink signature of Georgia P. Young at top right corner of page i; names of five other members of the Young family all in pencil (in a hand similar to that of Georgia Young) on rear free endpaper with date of March 18, 1868. An interesting Lowndes County, Mississippi association as Georgia Young (nee Georgia Priscilla Butt, 1834-1911) was the wife of Thomas Erskine Young (1831-1869), an heir to one of the great planter fortunes in antebellum Mississippi via his father George Young, owner of the magnificent Waverly Plantation upon the westbank of the Tombigbee River just north of Columbus, Mississippi. Serving in Company I, 43rd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Thomas Young achieved the rank of captain in October 1862 and assumed command of the company in the spring of 1863. Ingleside was the name of Thomas Young's in-town Columbus residence.…

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Title
EDUCATION: INTELLECTUAL, MORAL, AND PHYSICAL. (Spine title: "Education by Herbert Spencer.")
Author
Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903.
Publisher
D. Appleton and Company,, New York:
Publication year
1866
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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