A Letter to a Friend in the Country, Relative to the Intended School, at Ackworth, in Yorkshire. The Second Edition, with Additions.

FOTHERGILL (John)

Published by London: Printed and sold by James Phillips., 1779

About this Item

8vo (in 4s), 211 x 133 mms., pp. 64, folding engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates at end, uncut in contemporary marbled wrappers (rubbed and faded), stitched as issued; some slight, short tears to plates not affecting plate area. SOLD WITH: An engraved medallion, 50 mms. in diameter, of Fothergill, struck in 1879, in commemoration of the centennial of Ackworth School, with Fothergeill's profile on the obverse and an image of the school on the reverse. Fothergill (1712 - 1780) the previous year; this edition has been expanded from the 48 pges of the 1778 edition to 64. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he wrote to him to describe the proposed school as "a school for a plain English education' for the sons and daughters of poor Friends." ODNB notes that the school is "Fothergill's most important monument." ESTC T1885 locates the following North American copies: Swarthmore, Harvard, Haverford, Library Company of Philadelphia, and Yale; there are two copies of the first edition, Harvard and McMaster.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Letter to a Friend in the Country, Relative to the Intended School, at Ackworth, in Yorkshire. The Second Edition, with Additions.
• Publisher: London: Printed and sold by James Phillips.
• Publication Date: 1779
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education