Books

• An essay concerning humane understanding. Locke, John, 1632-1704. B1290 1690. London: Printed by Eliz. Holt for Thomas Basset, 1690.
• The English Theophrastus: or, The manners of the age. Being the modern characters of the court, the town, and the city. Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729. BJ1561.B69 E5 1708. London: W. Turner and J. Chantry, 1708. Third edition |b With the addition of 37 new characters.
• The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. PR3403 .A1 1719. London: W. Taylor, 1719.
• Ludus literarius; or, The grammar schoole; shewing how to proceede from the first entrance into learning, to the highest perfection required in the grammar schooles.. Brinsley, John, fl. 1633. LB1025 .B77. London: Imprinted by F. Kyngston for W. Leake, 1627.
• The preceptor: containing a general course of education wherein the first principles of polite learning are laid down in a way most suitable for trying the genius and advancing the instruction of youth. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. LB575 .D63 P74 1749. Dublin: Printed by George Faulkner, 1749. First edition London: Dodsley, 1748. Samuel Johnson was a contributor.
• The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure. AP3 .U5. London: Published monthly according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1747-. Library has issues for January-December 1750.
• The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman. Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. PR3714 .T7 1760. [York?, London]: [various imprints], 1760 [i.e.1759]-67.
• Eloisa: Or, a series of original letters, collected and published by J. J. Rousseau. Translated from the French. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. PQ2039 .A44 1761 CLSmith. London: Griffiths, Becket, and DeHondt, 1761. Second edition.
• Emilius and Sophia ; or, A new system of education. Tr. from the French of J.J. Rousseau … By the translator of Eloisa. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. LB512 .E5 K4 1762. London: R. Griffiths, T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1762-63.
• The instructions given in the Drawing School established by the Dublin Society. Fenn, Joseph. QA35 .F33 1769. Dublin: Printed by Alex. M’Culloh, 1769.
• Liberal education; or, A practical treatise on the methods of acquiring useful and polite learning. Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821. LC1001 .K5 1783 CLSmith. London: C. Dilly, 1783. Sixth edition.
• The Governess; or, The Little Female Academcy. Calculated for the entertainment and instruction of young ladies in their education. By the author of David Simple. Fielding, Sarah, 1710-1768. PR3459 .F3 G68 1789. London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, etc., |c 1789. Seventh edition, revised and corrected.
• Elegant epistles; or, A copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, selected for the improvement of young persons. Knox, Vicesimus, 1752-1821. PN6131 .K56 1790. London: C. Dilly, 1790.
• Elements of morality, for the use of children. Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811. BJ1633 .S24 1791. London: Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791. English translation by Mary Wollstonecraft. Plates by William Blake.
• The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays. Godwin, William, 1756-1836. AC8 .G73 1797. London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
• Things as they are: or, The adventures of Caleb Williams. Godwin, William, 1756-1836. PR4722 .T5 1802. Philadelphia: Printed by P. Byrne, 72, Chesnut-Street, 1802. First published London 1794.
• Letters on the elements of botany: addressed to a lady. By J.J. Rousseau ; translated into English, with notes, and twenty-four additional letters, fully explaining the system of Linnaeus, by Thomas Martyn. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778. QK92 .R813 1807. London: Printed for J. White, 1807. Companion volume: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus’s System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany. Thomas Martyn. QK92 .R81 1799.
• The parent’s assistant; or, stories for children. Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849. PR4644. Georgetown: Published by Joseph Milligan, 1809. “First American edition.”.
• Mrs. Leicester’s school, or, The history of several young ladies, related by themselves. Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847. PR4862 .M7 1810. London: Printed for M.J. Godwin at the Juvenile Library, 1810.
• The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: including an account of his shipwreck, and residence for twenty-nine years on an unknown island, the remarkable history of his deliverance; and the extraordinary circumstances which afterwards befel him in va. Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. PR3403 .A1 1812. [London]: Albion Press, [1812].