ELEMENTS OF CIVIL KNOWLEDGE by Yorke, Henry Redhead

Dorchester: Printed for the author by T. Lockett, 1800. [4], viii, [2], 336pp, [2]. Without half-title: 'Mural nights. Vol.1'. With a terminal advertisement leave: 'Ready for the press, the second volume of Mural nights, containing elements of political knowledge, and a method of studying the ancient classics.' - In fact the second volume was never published. Contemporary sheep, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed, joints starting. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting. A rare survival of the first edition of political writer Henry Redhead Yorke's (1772- 1813) provincially published treatise on the education of children in the virtues of the British state. A former revolutionary, Yorke claimed to have contributed to the revolutions in France, Holland and America, and threatened to propagate a further revolution in England. Promptly arrested for sedition, his beliefs would be altered utterly during his incarceration. This book is one result of his epiphany that children ought… Read More