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[Whyte's School] / [Whyte, Modern Education; or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Causes and Effects of our Errours

7948. [Whyte’s School Dublin] / [Whyte, Samuel] / [Sheridan, Thomas].

Modern Education; or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Causes and Effects of our Errours and Deficiencies in that Particular. With Practical Proposals for a Reformation. In the Course of which The Female Right to Literature is asserted ; The Supercilious Airs of Vain Pedants Exposed ; Their Wise Objections Exploded ; And the Trite Witticisms, Usual on the Question, Fairly Stated and Confuted : Clearly Demonstrating, That the Weakness and Depravity imputed to the Fair Sex, is wholly owing to our utter Neglect of their Minds ; and that the proper Cultivation of them is the First and Grand Principle of all Human Excellence, as well as of all our social and domestic Felicity. [Bound with: “Lectures On The Art of Reading ; First Part: Containing The Art of Reading Prose. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M., Author of Lectures on Elocution, British Education, &c.”].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by R.Marchbank, Cole’s Alley, Castle-Street, 1775. Small-Octavo (11.2 cm wide x 17.2 cm high). Pagination: Whyte’s “Modern Education…” is bound to the rear of the Volume: 77 pages plus “Corrigenda” (complete” / Sheridan’s “Lecture on the Art of Reading – Part I” is bound at the start of the Volume: vii, (1), 213 pages plus 1 page “Advertisement” [of Whyte’s “English Grammar-School” in Dublin, Grafton-Street, No.75”]. Hardcover / Original, full 18th century leather with gilt ornament and new spine-label in the style of the 18th century. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely scarce title !

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Mill, A System of Logic - Ratiocinative and Inductive

7980. [William Westropp Roberts – Mathematician Trinity College Dublin 1870] – Mill, John Stuart / [Provenance: William Roberts, Trinity College Mathematician, being W.R.W. Roberts (1850-1935), son of Mathematician Michael Roberts from Carrigaline, County Cork].

A System of Logic – Ratiocinative and Inductive. Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.

Seventh Edition. In Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1868. Octavo. Volume: XVIII, 541 pages / Volume II: XV, 555 pages. Hardcover / Original, absolutely stunning Trinity College Dublin Prize-Binding with the University Signet in gilt to all four boards (see images). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: “William Roberts” Mathematician with two price-labels from Trinity college stating: “Ingenuo magnaeque spei Adolsecenti Guilielmo Roberts Schol. [William Roberts, scholar] propter insignies in Mathematicis. Progressus in Classe secunda Praemium hoc Literarium. Primi Ordinis dederunt Praepositus et Socii Seniores Collegii Sacrosanctae et Individuar Trinitatis juxta. Dublin, Examinatione habita initio Termini S. Michaelis, A.D.1870.” [Translates: “A young and promising young man, William Roberts, [William Roberts, scholar] for his distinctions in Mathematics. Progressed in the second Class, this Literary Prize. First Order, given by the Provost and Senior Fellows of the College of the Holy and Individual Trinity, near Dublin, Examination held at the beginning of the Term of St. Michael, A.D. 1870.”]. With several text-markings and manuscript – annotations by Roberts.

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