The schoolmaster: or, plain and perfect way of teaching children to understand, write, and speak the Latin tongue ... Now corrected, and revised, with an addition of explanatory notes, by the Rev. Mr. James Upton...
London: Benj. Tooke, 1711. 8vo, pp. [12], xiii, [1], 212, [2], 40, [4] ads; 1 full-page engraved illustration; removed from binding; a very good copy. See Printing and the Mind of Man, 90: "In 1553 [Ascham] began the work which has made him famous, The Scholemaster. The book was occasioned by a debate at dinner with Sir William Cecil and others on the pros and cons of flogging in schools, with Ascham the protagonist of the anti-floggers ... It is not for use in schools ... nor was it really an original or revolutionary work, for the famous plea for gentle persuasion, as opposed to flogging, had been anticipated at Winchester, and had already found support in England. The expression of this humane spirit, however, and the lively defense of the vernacular in The Scholemaster--and perhaps also the touching description of Lady Jane Gray reading the Phaedo while everyone else was out hunting--have made it famous." Alston X, 14; Lowndes I, p. 87: "A book that will be always useful, and everlastingly esteemed ..." Item #49775
Price: $150.00
