The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of Select Essays, Relations, visions, and allegories collected from The most Eminent English Authors. To which are prefixed, New Thoughts on education. Designed for th Use of Scholls.

Published by Printed for Thomas Slack, Newcaslte [sic] Upon Tyne, 1756

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[4], x, 330pp, [4]. With a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Title in red and black. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf,Rubbed, slight loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed. early pen trials to endpapers, without FFEP, very occasional marginal chipping, scattered spotting. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a popular compilation of essays intended to assist the moral and spiritual education of young students of both sexes. Arranged by grammarian Anne Fisher (1719-1798), the wife of publisher Thomas Slack, the work proved immensely popular - and as a result was often pirated. The first London edition appeared in 1757. Slack would continue to issue editions into the 1780s. ESTC records copies of this edition at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Hull), and none elsewhere. ESTC T119327. Size: 12mo.

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Title
The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of Select Essays, Relations, visions, and allegories collected from The most Eminent English Authors. To which are prefixed, New Thoughts on education. Designed for th Use of Scholls.
Author
[FISHER, Anne]
Publisher
Printed for Thomas Slack, Newcaslte [sic] Upon Tyne
Publication year
1756
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Second edition.

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Established 2007, Antiquates Ltd is an Antiquarian bookseller with a large, custom built shop in the heart of the Dorset countryside. We sell fine and rare books from our Wareham shop, in catalogues, and via our website (www.antiquates.co.uk). Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children, we nevertheless stock a wide range of works on paper from 1500-present - including modern first editions. Our bias is towards the unusual, the interesting and the important - and always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy; we are just the place if you're looking for an extra-special gift for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or graduation. (Open Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm)…

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Specialising in early printed books both English and Continental, fine English Literature, and books by, for, and about Women and Children. We always have a good stock of rare books by local authors such as T.E

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Antiquates Ltd

The Conifers, Valley Road
Corfe Castle, Dorset, United Kingdom BH20 5HU