The young gentlemen and ladies monitor, and, English teacher's assistant; : being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers: calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners; improve the understanding; rectify the will; purify the passions; direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects; and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language, with elegance and propriety. Particularly adapted for the use of our eminent schools and academies, as well as private persons, who have not an opportunity of perusing the works of those celebrated authors from whence this collection is made. Divided into small portions for the ease of reading in classes. The second editon. /
Moore, John Hamilton,-1807.
Elmslie, Thomas,active 1779,former owner.StEdNL
Young, Desmond,of Le Beaupré Sark,former owner.StEdNL
Schickerling, A.,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Printed for Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal-Exchange.,
1777..
With an initial advertisement leaf.
ESTC
Bookplate on the front pastedown "This book belongs to Thomas Elmslie. Oldmeldrum. 1778.". Below that a sticker "Magnum in parvo". Bookplate on the recto of the front free endpaper "Ex libris Desmond Young / Le Beaupré Sark". Manuscript signature on the recto of the back flyleaf "Miss A. Schickerling / Cape of Good Hope.".
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England London.