PRINTED 1828-1830 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION SIX ED BOUND IN ONE VOL RARE

Description

Up for auction is a rare volume of
The American Journal of Education (6 editions bound in one volume) William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge Wait, Green, and Company, 1828-1830.
This volume has a unique early 19th century bookbinders ticket.
The ticket is affixed the inside board pastedown and states
" Reuben Chambers Book Binder Bethania, Pa."
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Reuben began life as a school teacher and about 1829 or 1830 came into Lancaster County and started a subscription school (there being then no free school)in a small village on the road from Strasburg to the Gap, about two miles west of the village Bethania, but it was more generally known in the neighborhood as Puddingtown.
He was fairly successful with it. At the end of the first year. Reuben's marriage seemed to stir him with higher ambitions and stimulate him to attempt greater achievements than fall to the lot of the humble teacher, and having a taste for printing and as he believed a talent for writing, he allowed his school to close and providing himself with material for small printing office began to do small jobs of printing.
His ambition now was to edit and publish a great newspaper which should educate and elevate mankind, and he consequently tackled all sorts of isms and doctrines. In religion he became a FreeThinker ; in earthly matters a Communist, and in everything else a little different from those he met with. Many of Reuben's ideas were far ahead of his time.”
Condition : Poor/ Acceptable:  Bound in full leather " 5 x 7 " front board hanging on by thread, hinges weak, spine shows loss head and heal. Internally interior shows age toning scattered foxing but bound tightly and complete approx 500pp.