[Rarebooks] FS: "The Common School Journal for... 1844" Edited by (& inscribed by) Horace Mann

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(EDUCATION) Mann, Horace (ed.). THE COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL for the Year 1844. Vol. VI. Boston: William B. Fowle. 1844. Tall 8vo. iv,398pp. Index. Bi-weekly journal, 24 issues. With 7 (of 8) plates, one folding. This copy inscribed on the front paste-down by Horace Mann in 1847. The name of the recipient is difficult to interpret. Half calf over marbled boards. Title and some text foxed.    $475.00 (trade discount allowed)
Note: Early American journals with illustrations are often found lacking plates.  Perhaps the plates weren't glued in well, or that illustrations were pulled from journals more often than from regular illustrated books?

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