[FISHER, Anne] – The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of Select Essays, Relations, visions, and allegories collected from The most Eminent English Authors. To which are prefixed, New Thoughts on education..

[FISHER, Anne]. The Pleasing Instructor or entertaining moralist consisting of Select Essays, Relations, visions, and allegories collected from The most Eminent English Authors. To which are prefixed, New Thoughts on education...

London. Published as the Act directs by F. Fisher & T. Slack, [s.d., c. 1800] New edition.

12mo. [2], xi, [1], 348pp. With three engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked, corners bumped. Early inked ownership inscription to FEP, without free-endpapers, title page browned.

An enlarged edition of a popular compilation of essays intended to assist the moral and spiritual education of young students of both sexes. Arranged by grammarian Anne Fisher (1719-1798), the wife of publisher Thomas Slack, the work proved immensely popular - and as a result was often pirated (including the forgery of Fisher's signature of authentication). The first London edition appeared in 1757. Slack continued to issue editions into the 1790s.

£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 31318