TURNER, RICHARD Two educational works in fine contemporary calf bindings, comprising: An easy introduction to the arts and sciences, being a short, but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning... The fourth edition. With considerable additions and improvements. London: S. Crowder, [1792?], 8 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps, fine woodcut illustrations of animals and scientific instruments A new and easy introduction to universal geography; in a series of letters to a youth at school... The fifth edition improved. London: S. Crowder, 1792, half-title, folding engraved map with outline colour, 25 engraved maps and plates (one with volvelle) with outline colour, H1 torn without losstogether 2 volumes, 12mo, matching contemporary tree calf, flat spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces Richard Turner (1753-1788) was a partner in Loughborough House School in Brixton, London, and the second work is dedicated to the children at that school. These schoolbooks proved very popular, being issued in numerous editions long after the author's death. LITERATURE: ESTC T187325 & T65402 (recording 4 copies of each). ESTC dates the first work as [1793?] but it is advertised in the front of the second work, which has the date 1792 on the title-page. PROVENANCE: Edward Grose, inscription in both volumes dated 1793
TURNER, RICHARD Two educational works in fine contemporary calf bindings, comprising: An easy introduction to the arts and sciences, being a short, but comprehensive system of useful and polite learning... The fourth edition. With considerable additions and improvements. London: S. Crowder, [1792?], 8 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps, fine woodcut illustrations of animals and scientific instruments A new and easy introduction to universal geography; in a series of letters to a youth at school... The fifth edition improved. London: S. Crowder, 1792, half-title, folding engraved map with outline colour, 25 engraved maps and plates (one with volvelle) with outline colour, H1 torn without losstogether 2 volumes, 12mo, matching contemporary tree calf, flat spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces Richard Turner (1753-1788) was a partner in Loughborough House School in Brixton, London, and the second work is dedicated to the children at that school. These schoolbooks proved very popular, being issued in numerous editions long after the author's death. LITERATURE: ESTC T187325 & T65402 (recording 4 copies of each). ESTC dates the first work as [1793?] but it is advertised in the front of the second work, which has the date 1792 on the title-page. PROVENANCE: Edward Grose, inscription in both volumes dated 1793
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