Animal and vegetable substances used in the arts and manufactures, illustrative of the imports and exports of Great Britain & her colonies, and explanatory of Dexter's cabinet of objects.
Published / Created:
London : Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster Row : and The National Society's Depository, Sanctuary, Westminster, 1857.London : T. Wilsher, printer, Manor Street, Chelsea
Physical Description:
viii, 184, [2] pages ; 17 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsQH51 .D49 1857Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Last page blank.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original green blind- and gold-stamped cloth. Title lettered in gilt on front cover. Autograph: Miss King, May 20th, 1858. Binder's label: Bound by Bone & Son. 76, Fleet Street, London.The book provides guidance for object lessons (or object-teaching), rooted in Pestalozzian principles of education popularized in Britain by Elizabeth Mayo. The lessons would be most effectively implemented in combination with a cabinet of specimens containing the objects described; page [185] includes an advertisement for cabinets for sale from various merchants at London. An example of such a box is present in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art (see link herewith).
Subject Terms:
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746–1827. | Object-teaching. | Education -- Great Britain. | Natural history -- Study and teaching. | Science -- Study and teaching. | Great Britain -- Industries. | Great Britain -- Commerce.
Contributors:
Bone & Son, binder. | National Society's Depository, publisher. | Wilsher, Thomas, active 1845–1861, printer. | Groombridge and Sons, publisher.
