Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is ConductedJ. Lancaster ... Darton and Harvey ... and Hatchard, 1806 - 211 pages |
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