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Apr. 27, 2023
Johnson (Samuel).- Ascham (Roger) The English Works, first edition, second issue, T.Davies, [?1767].
Est: £200 - £300
Johnson (Samuel).- Ascham (Roger) The English Works, edited by James Bennet, first edition, second issue with half-title, undated title and without 'Additional Subscribers' leaf, engraved coat-of-arms to dedication, list of subscribers, slight worming to lower outer corner of first few leaves, paper flaw hole to outer margin of I3, later ink inscription of Percy Alport Molteno of Trinity College Cambridge to half-title and with his bookplate, contemporary speckled calf, red roan label, rubbed, head of spine and corners a little worn, [Chapman & Hazen 145; Courtney p.100], 4to, for T.Davies & J. Dodsley, [?1767]. ⁂ The dedication and life of Ascham were written by Samuel Johnson, and many believe him to have edited the whole work. "Tom Davies's statement that Johnson was in reality the editor of this book gains weight from the fact (not mentioned in Courtney) that Davies was concerned in the publication; and is borne out by internal evidence...This neglected book must now rank among Johnson's major performances in editorial scholarship." (Chapman & Hazen).
Forum Auctions - UK
Mar. 30, 2023
Education.- Ascham (Roger) The Schoolemaster. Or, Playne and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latin Toong, Abell Jeffes, 1589.
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Education.- Ascham (Roger) The Schoolemaster. Or, Playne and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Understande, Write, and Speake the Latin Toong, back letter, title within typographic border, large woodcut printer's device on recto of final leaf, woodcut initials, final gathering with short internal tear running from inner margin, Macclesfield copy with bookplate and blind-stamps, later attractive blue boards, [Pforzheimer 16; STC 836], small 4to, Abell Jeffes, 1589. ⁂ The Macclesfield copy of this important work on educational theory by a former tutor to Elizabeth I.
Forum Auctions - UK
Feb. 10, 2022
Education.- Ascham (Roger) The Scholemaster or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, third edition, John Daye, 1571 [1573].
Est: £2,500 - £3,500
Education.- Ascham (Roger) The Scholemaster or plaine and perfite yay of teaching Children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin Tong, but Specially purposed for the private bringing Up of Youth in Gentlemen and Noble Mens Houses, third edition, black letter, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut historiated and decorative initials and tail-pieces, final f. with large woodcut printer's device over colophon recto, otherwise blank, title with repair at head and lower inner corner, without loss, dedication f. closely trimmed at head, first 5 ff. (including title) upper blank corner chipped (diminishing in size as proceeds), a few instances of marginal pen trails, colophon f. outer corners little clipped, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, [STC 835], Printed by John Daye dwelling over Aldersgate, 1571 [colophon 1573] bound with Rudd (Thomas) Practicall geometry, 2 parts in 1, numerous diagrams, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title and final f. soiled and with outer corners frayed, a couple of small repairs verso to final f., occasional spotting, [Wing R2170A], by J[ohn]. G[rismond]. for Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at his shop in the Bulwarke neer the Tower, 1650, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments, new red leather label, new gilt to spine and outer covers, small 4to ⁂ Third edition of this influential work by the tutor to the young Princess Elizabeth. Supposedly written as the result of a dinner debate with Sir William Cecil over the flogging of children, which Ascham opposed. Here he propounds more humane teaching methods. In this edition the catchword 'to' on the first page of the dedication is indented to the left and leaf 67 is misnumbered 66.
Forum Auctions - UK
Dec. 04, 2019
Ascham, Roger, 1515-68 - The Scholemaster. 1571.
Est: $500 - $1,000
Scarce Volume. 2nd edition. Contemporary inscription on title page. Original boards. Front cover detached.
Weiss Auctions
Jun. 19, 2018
Ascham, Roger
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
Ascham, Roger The Scholemaster Or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write and speake the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in Gentlemen and Noble mens houses. London: Printed by John Daye, 1571. Second edition, 4to (185 x 132mm.), [A1-2], B-T4, title within typographic border, large woodcut initial to [A2], large woodcut to recto of final leaf, Leaf 67 misnumbered 65., nineteenth century dark green morocco by Henderson & Bisset, spine lettered in gilt, g.e., some early marginalia, 4pp. of neat scholarly notes by William Graham to 2 extra leaves bound in at beginning, upper fore-margin of title renewed, fore-margin of 4 leaves [A2, B1-3] restored with 7 letters supplied in very neat pen facsimile by William Graham, corner of O2 renewed with a few letters supplied in very neat pen facsimile, ink ownership inscriptions to B1 margin (see Provenance), binding spine faded, [ESTC S100261], a little dampstaining
Lyon & Turnbull
Feb. 14, 2018
Ascham, Roger
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
Ascham, Roger The Scholemaster Or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write and speake the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the private bringing up of youth in Gentlemen and Noble mens houses. London: Printed by John Daye, 1571. Second edition, 4to (185 x 132mm.), [A1-2], B-T4, title within typographic border, large woodcut initial to [A2], large woodcut to recto of final leaf, Leaf 67 misnumbered 65., nineteenth century dark green morocco by Henderson & Bisset, spine lettered in gilt, g.e., some early marginalia, 4pp. of neat scholarly notes by William Graham to 2 extra leaves bound in at beginning, upper fore-margin of title renewed, fore-margin of 4 leaves [A2, B1-3] restored with 7 letters supplied in very neat pen facsimile by William Graham, corner of O2 renewed with a few letters supplied in very neat pen facsimile, ink ownership inscriptions to B1 margin (see Provenance), binding spine faded, [ESTC S100261], a little dampstaining
Lyon & Turnbull
Aug. 31, 2016
Ascham, Roger
Est: £200 - £300
Ascham, Roger The English Works. London: T. Davies & J. Dodsley, [1767]. First edition, second issue, with undated title, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt; Grose, Francis The Antiquities of England and Wales. London: S. Hooper, 1772-73. 4 volumes, (without the 2 vol. supplement), 4to., 4 engraved titles, 4 engraved frontispieces (2 misbound in text), 40 full-page plates, and 353 half-page plates, contemporary calf, worn, one cover detached (5)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 04, 2016
Ascham, Roger
Est: £100 - £150
Ascham, Roger The English Works. London: T. Davies & J. Dodsley, [1767]. First edition, second issue, with undated title, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt
Lyon & Turnbull
Mar. 13, 2008
Ascham, Roger (1515-1568). , The scholemaster or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin tong. London: John Daye, 1570
Est: £7,000 - £10,000
4to (191 x 137mm.), ff. [6], 67, [1], illustration : title within typographic border, large woodcut printer's device on recto of final leaf, woodcut initials, typographic tailpieces, binding : nineteenth-century blue boards, pencil marginalia throughout, manuscript notes in two hands on verso of final leaf, corners of some pages torn with slight loss, some spotting, rebacked, spine cracking
Sotheby's
Jun. 08, 2005
ASCHAM, Roger (1514/15-1568). The Scholemaster or plaine and persite way of teachyng children
Est: £5,000 - £8,000
ASCHAM, Roger (1514/15-1568). The Scholemaster or plaine and persite way of teachyng children, to understand, write, and speake, the Latin tong. London: John Daye, 1570. [Bound with:] A Report and Discourse... of the affaires and state of Germany. London: John Daye, [c. 1570]. 2 works in one volume, 4° (200 x 150mm). Black letter with Roman, italic, and Greek types, typographical title-borders, woodcut initials and ornaments, large pictorial woodcut device at end of first work [McKerrow 128]. (Faint stain damp at head of text, light soiling, a little wear at title edges.) Early vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (soiled, some loss at spine, front endpaper missing, ties lacking). Provenance: 'g.a.' (initials on first title and, possibly in the same early 17th-century hand, transcription on the back free endpaper from Bacon's 'On Learning' in an early 17th-century hand) -- Robert Forby, Caius College, Cambridge, 1787 (inscription on first title) -- James Gunn, Bookseller (ALs dated July 20/93, laid-in) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITIONS, tall copies. The Scholemaster 'is a classic in the history of education as well as a recognized landmark in the progress of English prose composition' (Pforzheimer). 'The expression of this humane spirit... and the lively defence of the vernacular in The Scholemaster -- and perhaps also the touching description of Lady Jane Grey reading the Phaedo while everyone else was out hunting -- have made it famous' (PMM). The Report of the Affaires and States of Germany bound in this volume is based on a diary Ascham kept while secretary to Sir Richard Morison, English ambassador to the Emperor Charles V. He forwarded the greater part of it in a letter dated 1552 to his friend John Astley, in attendance on Princess Elizabeth at Hatfield, from which this 'Report', describing the German princes he met and the political questions at issue in Europe, was eventually published. Robert Forby (1759-1825), philologist, was a fellow at Caius College, Cambridge, when he acquired this copy in 1787. Later the same year Sir John Berney persuaded him to leave university and become tutor to his sons. Afterwards he took pupils at Barton Bendish. Forby's important philological work, left unfinished, was The vocabulary of East Anglia: an attempt to record the vulgar tongue of the twin sister counties, Norfolk and Suffolk (London: 1830). ESTC 104387 and 100282; Grolier Langland to Wither 4 and 10; Pforzheimer 15 and 14; PMM 90; STC 832 and 830.
Christie's
Oct. 08, 2001
ASCHAM, Roger (1515-1568). The Schoolemaster: or, Playne and perfite way of teaching children to understande, write and speake the Latin toong.... London: Abell Jeffes, 1589.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
4 o (184 x 132 mm). Black letter. Title within typographical border, typographical head- and tail-pieces, woodcut opening initials, woodcut publisher's device on colophon leaf (McKerrow 253). (C4-D2 slightly wormed at lower margin, C4 also with small repair at lower corner, E4 with lower corner torn away, E1 to end with waterstain at lower corners touching on text.) Late 19th-century brown morocco, tooled in blind, and with gilt arms stamped on covers, edges gilt. Provenance : Frederick Perkins, Chipstead Place, Kent (bookplate and armorial binding) -- G. Walter Steeves (bookplate) -- purchased from Maggs Bros., London, 12 June 1970. Fifth edition. Ascham's career included a period as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary, and two periods as tutor to Princess Elizabeth. His great educational classic was first published posthumously in 1570 and enjoyed immediate popularity. "The plea for gentle coercion, as opposed to flogging, as an educative force had already found support in England. But the expression of this humane spirit, and the spirited defence of the vernacular in it -- and perhaps the touching description of Lady Jane Grey -- made the book famous" (PMM Exhibition Catalogue, 1963, no. 222). John Day had published the previous editions but he yielded his rights to the Stationers' Company for the use of the poor in 1584. Grolier Langland to Wither 7; Pforzheimer 16; STC 836; see PMM 90.
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