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    EXHIBITS OF BOOKS AT THE UNIVERSAL EXPOS...

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    cations his ' Schoolmaster ' was the most popular ffJ after D Jl » ^ ^^ ^ the ^ ¦ ¦ ^^ « Arithmetick ^» . ¦ ¦» ^ ^^ v ^»^ ^^^ hi ^ ^^ - «^^ ^^ &^ w . ' Cocker — - - ^^ ^^ w » ^^^ - ^ k k who « v A . ^ ^^ was v v ^ Wi r born ^^^ ^^ ^^ » ^ - , , .

    in 1631 and died suddenly in 1675 , is mentioned several times by Pepys , who found him * very ingenious and well-read in our English Poets , '

    and and a a pleasant Dleasant tellow fellow to to boot boot . . It It is is said said that that during the parliamentary career of Joseph Hume his political opponents never failed to quote Cocker /^^^ k against ^^ f ^ fc k him ¦ . Murphyin his Vh ^ clever farce JL

    \^ f V ^ V ^* - _ . ^* w ^ ^ ^ Byr «^ *^ A m m m ^ fc * - ^^ *^» ^ L . m *^ ^^ w , m ^ ^^ JL * ^ L ^ ^ ^^^ L ^^ V ^^/ ^ Lm ^ ^ hfV ^^ ^^ ' The Apprentice , ' makes Gringate , the father , insist that his son , a stage-struck hero , should throw aside the author i ^ ji jl . of < Hamlet ¦» ¦ ¦¦ - ' ' You read

    l / i lj . v ^ » v «^ v *_* * - va ^—^ ua- * »*• w v ^ . v ^ ^^ v ^ jl . m ^ f 1 a ^— ' kj . « « A _ V- ^ * - * . . a . vyCvVA Shakespeare ! get Cocker ' s " Arithmetic " ; you may buy it for a shilling upon a stall ; the best book that ever was wrote ! '

    This catalogue of Clavel ' s , if it be read carefully , will reveal many little-known literary curiosities rnrin « iHp > s _ . We Wft learn learn , for for examp fiya , mnl le that f-. Vin . f-. nnp one

    , , I . Garret issued a book or chapbook termed * A delightful way to teach Children to know their Letters l / V ^ JL it . JL «_ T being XJUt a l ^ V Book - ¦—» " of Pictures in JL 1 A 24 Jfcrf ¦ Leaves

    J _^ V ^ all \ J - the *—*^ , Al R ^ S ^ p habet > ; livel V- 'JL » V _» y represented . A . JL . % - / V V * . JL . ^ J * h _> 5 n several - * V ^ LV V V ^ kJ Histories taken out of the Bible ' ; and another publication which ht to inculcate the

    teachsoug ings of Holy Writ was the * Garden of Eden , or a view of the Creation , ' which contained 250 folio JL . V «^ ¦^¦¦^ ^ u ^ p f ^ - r ictures -A . >^ «« r » - » ^ L . ^—^ >^_ r * of - ^^ ^^ « all ^ v - —>^ sorts p ^ r -v « r « h > ^^ ^ - ^ of ~ V ^ ^ k > birds » N-r ^ . A . ^ -- ^ B >^ , beasts ^ . ^ V'VAK / W *_^ , fishes JK ~> ' ¦¦¦ v ¦ \ -S ** J , m

    flowers , fruits , flies , and insects , ' but as a great many of these are at the present day subjects of controversy , it makes one tremble for the vagueness of our x ^ forefathers fc 4 w ' youthful aiA education kvi ¦ 1 1 It

    ^ A ^^ O ^^ Pfe , ^ m , ^ — . «^^ i ^ L * ^ - - ^^ f ^ k ^ v' ^ 1 ^^ ^* ^^ - ^ ^«^ ^ p ^^ ^ y ^ . ^ ^^ «^ ^^» , ^_^ ^ v ^^ ^_«^ ^_ ^ m , _ ^ ^« v ^ - ^ Jk V ^ ' ¦ ^ , % ^ is , perhaps , somewhat comforting to know that even Cocker did not have it all his own way , for there U 1 . 1 V- / A . >^^ were V V V- > A . V ^ several * - _/ \ y * V _/ J- «^* u . who * * Aa v ^ had * B . «^««^>« . no ^^ \_^ compunction X ^ '— ¦ ^ ¦ 1 K ^ * --t . " 1 X ^« « - ' JL V ^ A JL at \ JV -

    boldly questioning his right to be considered * the only authority . ' There were , for example , Elder ' s CopybooksElder ' s * Youths if ' Recreation' and

    X _ ^ * —* kj" V | k ^ ^_^ ^ S A . ^ *— ' , " ¦ " - - ^^ B . «^ A- ••— » ^ c ^ " - " * - » ^/ -A .-B , - » - . m > V ^> >_^ . * . X _« % > V »¦ ^ - V- ' Jt . * , a ^^ a * Ji V ^» - Elder ' s * County Writing Master '; and Johnson's * Arithmetick , ' and Jackson ' s * Young Scholar ' s Pocket-Book , ' which claimed to give every

    information concerning the first rudiments of arithwas metic William . A more Ley import bourn an , who t rival wrote than many any , perh *¦ educa aps - , certain amount

    tional' works which possessed a of merit , and were popular . H . Brown was the publisher of * Arithmetical Recreations , ' whilst the still better known booksellerGeorge

    Saw-, bridge , brought out Leybourn ' s * Vulgar , Decimal , Instrumental , and Algebraical Arithmetick' in four parts . Leybourn ' s Cursus Mathematicus '

    was ' undertaken' by four publishers , and was , perhaps , his most important work on the subject . Lily's * Grammar ' has a reputation very nearly as extensive as Cocker ' s ' Arithmetick . ' Fuller

    , in his ' Church History' ( 1655 ) , states that this Latin Grammar ' was first set forth anno 1513 when v » M ~*^~ f m . jL jl . Paul msv * - jjk ' " s »* school -- ' - ^^^ c f * ^^ ¦»—»¦ — was » »» w"v — founded . - ^^ ™ a » ¦^ - ¦« . ^^ - »^» ) y , ' and «^« r »¦ - ^^^ tha \ . m * a m ~* j t % s L m m il ^ j * . y j

    * submitted his Syntaxis to the judgement of Erasmus himself , so that it was afterwards printed among his works . ' The edition of 1533 was printed Ai bWynk &• de ¦¦ Worde ¦ % . Some / writers >_/ jl

    state V V % JV * * J f ^ f that a ' . v V > the ^ - ^» - r ^ -s y j Eng ** > lish « ... yn w rudiments « . « * .- » »— ' « »— ' -m . -w « - ^ r of a this ^_/ ^ - ^ r M M grammar v , v v jl ^ fc * - < ¦ j > were written by Dean Colet , and that the preface

    was -was written written b bv y no no less less a a person r » erson than than Cardinal Cardinal Wolsey . Lily was born at Oldham , Hampshire , in in 1466 14 fif » _ and and studied studied at at Oxford Oxford . . After After a a , conti r .

    onti-nental t , our , he returned to London in 1509 , and taug % J | A ^_* r ** ht *¦**¦ ' grammar ^™ » ^ llV *~ -JL A JL - ¦* * - J «/^ , « poet »~ - ' ^— ' ^^ » ¦ ry - " ¦ _ 7 , and " ^ l" ^ - —¦• rhe - — - .- — ^_ jr t ^ r o \^ r i Jt c ^_^ « , whilst >| & 1 A A k _^ «^ he JL JJ V- *

    has the honour of being the first to teach Greek in this city . Dean Colet appointed him headmaster of his school , a position which he occupied for twelve yearsuntil his death on February 25

    , , 1523 . Next in fame comes ' The Schoolmaster' of

    Roger Ascham , which claimed to be a ' plaine and perfect way of teaching children to understand , % . — =

    write , and speake the Latin tong , but specially I purposed for the private brynging- up of youth in I

    gentlemen and noblemen ' s houses , and commodious also for all such as have forgot the Latin tonge , and would , by themselves , without a scholemaster JLJLV ^ » -X / TJi in short tymeand lJ with ¦ small > - / / paines ¦ ¦

    recover KJ' ^ f - -- / *—¦—« . a «^* . »^ sufficient W ^^ . , JLJVJL U 41 VJL habilitie U . 7 ¦* - * - * V ^ " , y yAAVJL to understand V * - « . V •¦ - * . J . ^^« - ^ J »^ - , write m ^ w ^ '" - ^ y , , I and speak Latin . ' This book was first printed in I 1570 by John Day ' dwelling over Aldersgate' I

    and again by him in , 1571 ; in 1589 it was printed , [ by *~ r J - Abel *• - »• K / V JL . Jefifes ^ JF Vj-JJ-V kJ , j whose TT i . J-V kJ V impression XULLk / JL ^ V kJU JL . \ J jL . Jk is JUKJ , according tJVV / V / X ^ A v- **** w to , I of

    Mr . W . Carew Hazlitt , much rarer than those 1570 and 1571 . From the Stationers' Register it would would sp seem . ftm that that , this this book Vvorvlr . which wVnr . Vi was \ xras written "writte . n at at j

    the request of Sir Richard Sackville , , was originally entitled ^ -v •«! * The Scholemaister this » 1 * book ^ 1 at of Windsore 1 T T . ' Mr . j

    Quaritch prices thirty shillings . : Some very remarkable * school' books were published during the earlier half of the last

    century . London Bridge was the famous locality for books dealing with various abstruse problems , but written in a * popular' and understandable manner . ,

    We We have have one one or or two two examples examnles or of these these now now before berore us , and it would be difficult to decide which is the more Mil \_ J > J . \^ s extraordinary X- 'rfJV V J 1- * V- ' JU V ^ i JL JL ^ CAf JL . J , the *^ JL AVV i JI llustrations JL JL V 4- ** J k'J ^ . LV l ^ JU . VJ JLJ . K _ 7 ^ or - » JL . the 1 ^ JL J , »— ' infor ¦* - *_* - - ^ J > - » . -

    mation , for each is similarly vague , inaccurate , and even mythical 1 The one remarkable fact in j connection with school books is thatexcept in

    some few conspicuous examples , they , have no commercial value to the book-collector , who shuns them ^^/ * * ^^^ ¦ / A Jk as B "frp _ f ^ a LJflr p B ^^ F lague Jft 9 i %# ^ m ^ ^ ^^ J « ^^^^ * 1 Their ^ JLb JL JI ^^^ ^ w ^ Lv interest Jt » JL > JL % ^ ^^^ r JL > ^^^/ r * Ly to L , ^^ ^ p ^ one L ^ ' JL JL ^^^~ man JLJLJL % ^ v / ^ k ^ L has ^ L > J . ^^ Vr ^^

    rarely anything permanent in it . They are scarcely ever consulted in after life , and this fact alone accounts l for JL the ¦ scarcity of the earlier ¦»¦ publications «¦ w

    CiV ^> J > *— ' X- ' ^ - " * - AA -K - > V ^ . •*¦• ' ^— ' LJ » V » ' »>*** - *»^ . * . 1-J T VJ' - - % ir *• - * ^ - ' N- * »^**^ - >¦ ^ - ^ -Ok f" - ' v- ^ •»— ' ^ . A . -+ ~ r *^* f *^ - ^_ r — . — n _ v of this class . A comparison , however , with Robert C X _< r lav XLW * e V / l JL ' s B ^^ ' Catalogue \^/ V ^ ^ - «^ W - * ^ . JF bK * - * ^~ - ' of ^—r * - two V V V ^— ' hundred . *¦ JL * - * . M . J * ^^ w ^ ^^ X ^» - years J "Owf « - ^* . » - •—» ago » - ^» MM ^ - ^ with the t issue of the PublishersCircular

    will very presen plainly demonstrate the great ' advances which have been made in educational literature .

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    August is , 1888 The Publishers' Circular 9 i 7

    Exhibits Of Books At The Universal Expos...

    EXHIBITS OF BOOKS AT THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION , BARCELONA .

    ( From a Correspondent ,. ) The Spanish International Exhibition has many fine 1 ^ JLJ \_ ^ disp V- ^ Itj fS lays J » *^ W T KJ * of ' —* books *~ T V- * >— ' ¦» »¦ » — ' and «^* ' * -M ~\ -J % , journals I ^>^ » i- ^ M ~ M . M , ^ j ^ I M . ¦_» from rfh . JK . v — . — - Jh various * »™ — - A -V- ^ ¦ W ^ --

    -in parts the , coun and tr notably y itself . exhibits The following of works matter printed may be relied upon as complete , perfect , and accurate , having J , XCXl Vill tl been KJ V > Ks 1 . li 1 held \> XVA back KJ * J * i \ ^ S JLV . for JL . V ^ JL the \ J M . A \^ t insertion Jk JLAKJ \_ ^ JL l > i . \ rf »* of V # JL . latest JL «^< D \ y l ^ W

    information until the last moment ; but space , in view of the large number of stands to be noticed , permits only of brief descriptions . The exhibits KJ are distributed over various jl ^^ edifice % ^/ sbut ¦

    the \^ s ^ V XXX great ¦ U fcj * - * -JL * _/ Palacio ^ l - * Ui . 1 K / ** de m . «^ ^— ' ^ - ^ Industria ^^ * V » * jl » wva . ' has ^* - x ~* * - b * ^ « r * . ^ . far ^ n ^ ¦ - * , w the *~ r ^^ » - most . Universite Catholide LouvainBelium . —

    Educational works , and que on various sub , jec g ts ; also atlases , drawings , designs , & c , relating to education .

    P . Weissenbruch , Brussels . —A fine lot of works on travel , history , politics , biography , & c . lisher H . Dessai h k ib KS iting n JLiJ , Malines a rea . t — number Another / vi of Bel volum gian es pub all

    llOllvi . V- * ^ fc . A - X it ' C £ ^ C */ g £ ¦ , A K *> C- »^ t- ' a 1 M * ai ^ vjl , » v- ' *« . »«*» v- ' -- ' , y a ^ w a a heavil religious -brass —irom -lat small ed and prayer ilt - Bibles books . to The wei covers ghty , are of y variegated p hues and g the bindings

    sumptuous . Societe Beige de Libraire ( A . Vandenbroeck , X dire ^^ X JL V > X ctor * * N . i * JL ) JT , Brussels " i * JL VJkt ^ J *^( ^™* JL V-J . — J Neat ^ - / % ^^ ^ J arrangement «^ V & JV » W * Wk ^ - * » « ^^ r ILJt V of ¦> ^ M- tomes fc * -v ^ - »¦¦ - ^ - ^ •—'

    on the ' ologies—psychology , theology , horology , and others . Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Belgium . — Official publications , bound reports , newspapers I

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 15, 1888, page 917, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15081888/page/15/