Roger Ascham | The Schoolemaster, 1589, nineteenth-century armorial morocco, the Berland copy

Roger Ascham

The Schoolemaster. Or, Playne and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latin Toong. London: By Abell Jeffes, 1589

4to (186 x 131 mm), title-page within border of printer's ornaments, decorative and historiated initials, woodcut printer's device in colophon, nineteenth-century maroon morocco by Clyde S. Newman for Frederick Perkins of Chipstead Place, Kent, with his gilt arms stamped to covers, some spotting and marginal dampstaining, small wormhole to lower margin of 2 leaves, a couple of minor paper repairs

An attractive, wide-margined copy of this important Elizabethan work of educational theory.

PROVENANCE:

Frederick Perkins (1780-1860) of Chipstead Place, Kent: gilt armorial stamps to covers [UToronto British Armorial Bindings stamp 1] and armorial bookplate; G. Walter Steeves: bookplate; Abel Berland: bookplate

LITERATURE:

Pforzheimer 126; Grolier, Langland to Wither, 7; STC 836