[Rarebooks] FS-Bentham on Education

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

BENTHAM, Jeremy.  Chrestomathia: Being a Collection of Papers,
Explanatory of the Design of an Institution, Proposed to Be Set
on Foot . . . for the Extension of the New System of Instruction
to the Higher Branches of Learning [etc.] [Part I]. Chou C1(2).
Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss . . . and R. Hunter [etc.],
London, 1816.  Modern cloth-backed boards, printed paper label,
some browning and staining, moreso to the fore-margin, else a
crisp copy; with the two folding tables. [77051 ACT] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=77051 $ 950.00

First published edition of the first part of Bentham's sole work
on education, ambitiously proposing extending suitable secondary
education to the "middling classes" and ultimately influencing
Bentham's ideas as embodied in his 'Constitutional Code'.

Joe Luttrell
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