The Preceptor
Subtitle: containing a general course of education : wherein the first principles of polite learning are laid down in a way most suitable for trying the genius, and advancing the instruction of youth : in twelve parts : illustrated with maps and useful cuts ...
Contributors: Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Edition: The sixth edition, with additions, and improvements.
Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley ...
Published: 1775
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Education -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Dedicatory epistle signed by the compiler, R. Dodsley.

Vol. 1: [1], L, [5]-414, [4] p., [27] leaves of plates (some fold.)

"The preface" (v. 1, p. ix-xxxi) is by Samuel Johnson.  Cf. Courtney, W.P.  A bibl. of Samuel Johnson, 1915, p. 22.

Fisher copy: With the inscription "E lib: Thomas Langley, 1785" on t.p.