Preface on pages [iii]-iv, beginning: "It may be thought that I have chosen a distressing subject for my tale...children from affliction."
Illustration: Copper-engraved frontispiece (undated here) showing a pupil expounding an astronomical problem to a master sitting at his desk in front of a small class.
Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper: "William Davis, the gift of his grandmother," and below that "William Davis, February 14."
Discussion of the date of publication in: The date of Elizabeth Sandham's "The Boys' School" / David Lee. Notes and Queries, n.s., 22, September 1975. p. 396-7.)
Binding note
Contemporary dark brown sprinkled sheep, gilt-ruled on spine.
References
Osborne coll., p. 931
Cf. Gumuchian, 5102
Other title(s)
Traits of character in early life
OCLC
27091292
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