[Rarebooks] fa: HENRY BROUGHAM on the EDUCATION OF THE POOR and CHARITABLE ABUSES 1818

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The Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. in the House of Commons, May, 8, 1818. On the Education of the Poor, and Charitable Abuses. London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1818. FIRST EDITION. Pamphlet-sized 8vo; [2], 49, [1] pp. Disbound from a nonce volume with remnants of earlier binding on the spine; title-page a bit dusty with stamps and markings of the Board of Education Library; corners bumped with loss to two corners (not affecting any text); dust-soiling to the edges of the text block; mild toning to the leaves with occasional light spotting to the bottom margins. One early penciled marginal comment ("Stuff!") next to Brougham's disparaging allusion to the concept, "that if you taught plowmen and mechanics how to read, they would thenceforward disdain to work."

Henry Brougham (1778-1868), statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, reformer, economist, wit, and hyperactive gadfly, was one of the leading political figures of his time. He was a longtime proponent of a national system of education, and here discusses at length the findings of a two-year parliamentary investigation into the education of the poor.