Elizabeth Hamilton, Elementary Principles of Education, Alexandria VA 1803 1st

Description: Elizabeth Hamilton, Elementary Principles of Education, Alexandria VA 1803 1st Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education by Elizabeth Hamilton Volume II (of Two-Volume Set) Printed by Cottom & Stewart for Samuel Bishop, Alexandria, 1803, first American Edition from the 2nd London edition. Half-leather hard covers (paper over boards with burgundy calf spine, leather spine title label with gilt lettering, small octavo, vi + 451 pages. Elizabeth Hamilton (1756?-1816) was a British essayist, poet, satirist and novelist. She was most probably born on 25 July 1756, though the date is often given as 1758. Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton (d.1759), a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay (d.1767), she lived most of her life in Scotland, moving there in 1762 to live with a Mrs Marshall, her paternal aunt, near Stirling and spending much of her later life in Edinburgh. She died in Harrogate in England after a short illness. Her first literary efforts were directed in supporting her brother Charles in his orientalist and linguistic studies. After his death in 1792 she continued to publish orientalist scholarship, as well as historical, educationalist and theoretical works. She wrote The Cottagers of Glenburnie (1808), a tale which had much popularity in its day, and perhaps had some effect in the improvement of certain aspects of humble domestic life in Scotland. She also wrote the satirical novel Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800), and the anti-Jacobin Letters of a Hindoo Rajah in 1796, a work in the tradition of Montesquieu and Goldsmith. Her most important pedagogical works are Letters on Education, Essays on the Human Mind (1796), Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education (1801), Letters addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle (1806), and Hints addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools (1815). ----Wikipedia Very scarce copy CONDITION: Fair to Good-. (Covers have moderate darkening and wear to spine, corner wear. Stamp of previous owner and browning on front pastedown. Browning on endpapers and pastedowns. Missing pieces and name of previous owner on margins of title page. Dampstains on about 10 leaves at front including title page, Contents and several text pages. Closed marginal tears on three front leaves. Age-soiling to page edges. Foxing spots (text completely readable). Binding is tight.) Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items. Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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