Educational essays; or, practical observations on the intellectual and moral training and scholastic discipline of youth

With inquiries and remarks illustrating the respective advantages of home and colonial education; and suggesting methods by which the necessity of leaving the colony in order to obtain a liberal education may be superseded. Cover title: Skinner’s educational essays. Melbourne : George Robertson, 1867. New and enlarged edition. Octavo, original purple cloth with gilt lettering to upper board (faded and speckled, occasional minor stains), front pastedown and free endpaper with owners’ bookplates, xv, 145 pp, loss to upper corner of title page, owner’s stamp on upper of p iii, sparse foxing.