Printed letter, with names, by the 'Assistant Masters of Eton, Winchester, Charter House, St. Paul's, and Harrow Schools' to their headmasters, urging a 'reconsideration of their announced intention with respect to the Public School Latin Primer.'

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Eton, Winchester, Charter House, St. Paul's and Harrow Schools [the Public School Latin Primer]
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[London. 1850s?]
£95.00
SKU: 8829

4to, 2 pp. Bifolium, with each printed page on the recto of the leaf. Good, on aged paper. With part of the previous mount adhering to the blank reverse of the second leaf. Five objections are given, including the fact that the primer is 'unattractive in its present form'. The final objection reads 'We think that the metrical passages, of which the meaning is often ambiguous, will not only burden the memory, but tend to injure the taste of the learner.' The names and posts of thirty-six signatories are given, with the second page carrying the names of twenty 'gentlemen who wish to be understood as expressing their agreement with the general purport of the above memorial'. These include the headmasters of Cheltenham, Marlborough, Sherborne and Uppingham. From the album of Rev. William Done Bushell (1838-1917).