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An essay concerning humane understanding. by Locke, John, 1632-1704
Call Number: B1290 1690
Publication Date: London : Printed by Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset, 1690.
The English Theophrastus : or, The manners of the age. Being the modern characters of the court, the town, and the city. by Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729
Call Number: BJ1561.B69 E5 1708
Publication Date: London : W. Turner and J. Chantry, 1708.
Third edition |b With the addition of 37 new characters.
The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner by Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Call Number: PR3403 .A1 1719
Publication Date: London: W. Taylor, 1719.
Ludus literarius; or, The grammar schoole; shewing how to proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection required in the grammar schooles... by Brinsley, John, fl. 1633.
Call Number: LB1025 .B77
Publication Date: London: Imprinted by F. Kyngston for W. Leake, 1627.
The preceptor : containing a general course of education wherein the first principles of polite learning are laid down in a way most suitable for trying the genius and advancing the instruction of youth by Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.
Call Number: LB575 .D63 P74 1749
Publication Date: Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner, 1749.
First edition London: Dodsley, 1748.
Samuel Johnson was a contributor.
The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure.
Call Number: AP3 .U5
Publication Date: London : Published monthly according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1747-
Library has issues for January-December 1750.
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman by Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Eloisa: Or, a series of original letters, collected and published by J. J. Rousseau. Translated from the French. by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Call Number: PQ2039 .A44 1761 CLSmith
Publication Date: London : Griffiths, Becket, and DeHondt, 1761.
Second edition.
Emilius and Sophia ; or, A new system of education. Tr. from the French of J.J. Rousseau ... By the translator of Eloisa. by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Call Number: LB512 .E5 K4 1762
Publication Date: London : R. Griffiths, T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1762-63.
The instructions given in the Drawing School established by the Dublin Society by Fenn, Joseph.
Call Number: QA35 .F33 1769
Publication Date: Dublin: Printed by Alex. M'Culloh, 1769
Liberal education; or, A practical treatise on the methods of acquiring useful and polite learning by Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.
Call Number: LC1001 .K5 1783 CLSmith
Publication Date: London : C. Dilly, 1783.
Sixth edition.
The Governess; or, The Little Female Academcy. Calculated for the entertainment and instruction of young ladies in their education. By the author of David Simple. by Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768.
Call Number: PR3459 .F3 G68 1789
Publication Date: London : Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, etc., |c 1789.
Seventh edition, revised and corrected.
Elegant epistles; or, A copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons by Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821.
Call Number: PN6131 .K56 1790
Publication Date: London: C. Dilly, 1790.
Elements of morality, for the use of children by Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
Call Number: BJ1633 .S24 1791
Publication Date: London: Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791.
English translation by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Plates by William Blake.
The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays. by Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Call Number: AC8 .G73 1797
Publication Date: London : G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
Things as they are: or, The adventures of Caleb Williams. by Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Call Number: PR4722 .T5 1802
Publication Date: Philadelphia: Printed by P. Byrne, 72, Chesnut-Street, 1802.
First published London 1794.
Letters on the elements of botany : addressed to a lady. By J.J. Rousseau ; translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn. by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Call Number: QK92 .R813 1807
Publication Date: London : Printed for J. White, 1807.
Companion volume: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany. Thomas Martyn. QK92 .R81 1799
The parent's assistant; or, stories for children by Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849
Call Number: PR4644
Publication Date: Georgetown: Published by Joseph Milligan, 1809
"First American edition."
Mrs. Leicester's school, or, The history of several young ladies, related by themselves. by Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Call Number: PR4862 .M7 1810
Publication Date: London: Printed for M.J. Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1810
The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe : including an account of his shipwreck, and residence for twenty-nine years on an unknown island, the remarkable history of his deliverance; and the extraordinary circumstances which afterwards befel him in va by Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
