[Printed book.] The School House; Its Architecture, External and Internal Arrangements, with [...] papers on Gymnastics, the Use of Apparatus, School Discipline, Methods of Teaching, etc., etc., [...] with Selections for Public Recitations in Schools

216pp., 8vo, paginated i-viii, 6-212. With numerous engravings of views and plans of schools, 'school architecture' (desks, blackboards and so on), and diagrams and illustrations of gymnastics. Divided into three sections: 'School Architecture', 'School Economy and Discipline' and 'Selections for public Recitation in Schools'. Two-page appendix: 'New Brick School House at Simcoe, County of Norfolk'. In original printed wraps of cloth backed with card. In fair condition, on aged paper, in heavily worn wraps. The volume contains an interesting selection of stamps and labels. Inscription at head of title-page: 'Given to the Educ: lib: S. K. Museum by the Canadian Government, through the Colonial office.' The title-page also carries two stamps of the Educational Museum (one of them of the Science & Art Department) and one of the Education Department Library. The inside front wrap carries the shelfmark label and stamp of the 'South Kensington Museum. | Educational Library. | Given by the Government of | [word 'Canada' added in manuscript] | Through the Colonial Office.' The back wrap carries the red and white label of the Education Department Reference Library. There were 1857 and 1878 editions of this work, and all three are scarce, with this 1858 edition the rarest: the only copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat at the University of Sherbrook in Canada.