The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue

by R. Kay

$1,750 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

New Castle: M. Angus & Son, 1801. First edition. Featuring eight woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Nineteenth century pebbled cloth with gilt to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Corners gently bumped and some bubbling to cloth of front board; rear hinge a bit tender and rear pastedown faintly soiled. Internally pleasing, with some offsetting to the title page and occasional light scattered foxing as

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