(ARNOLD, Matthew) Education Commission. Report of Matthew Arnold Esq., foreign assistant commissioner. FIRST, STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL, EDITION. Printed by George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode, for H.M.S.O. 1860
Orig. blue printed wraps in later green buckram; wrappers marked and chipped. Signature of Edwin Chadwick, booklabel of the Gladstone Library National Liberal Club.
¶A very scarce Arnold item, reporting on the system of popular education in France, Holland and the French Cantons of Switzerland. Partly reprinted in Schools and Universities on the Continent 1868, Higher Schools and Universities in Germany 1874, and in A French Eton, to which is added Schools and Universities in France 1892. Arnold was an inspector of schools from 1851 to 1886.
Stock #60142
£750
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