Historical and Miscellaneous Questions, for The Use of Young People; with a selection of British and General Biography,etc, etc. By Richmal Mangnall. Fifteenth Edition, Corrected And Improved.

London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; And Hurst, Robinson, And Co., Cheapside, 1820 .. An interesting book with a very good local pedigree! A very good full leather binding. pp.2-8/pp.447/[1p.] . Brown calf. Corners and hinges carefully strengthened. Previous owners details in a contemporary hand to verso of the front board; top of title; and rear endpaper: "Charles Palmer Baldry, Alderton, Suffolk, Sept. 17, 1825". Front free-endpaper absent. Title lighly soiled. Colophon at the bottom of p.447: "Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street, London." Clean English text throughout with good margins. Page edges rubbed and corners creased. ** "Richmal Mangnall (1769�1820) was an English schoolmistress and writer of a famous schoolbook. Richmal was born on 7 March 1769, probably in London. She was one of seven children of James Mangnall of Hollinhurst, Lancashire, and London, and Richmal, daughter of John Kay of Manchester to survive infancy. One brother, James, became a London solicitor, another, Kay, died in the East Indies in 1801. Her parents died about 1781, when she was adopted by an uncle, also John Kay, a Manchester solicitor. The first edition of her Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People (1798) was printed privately and anonymously for use in the school. It was then taken up by the London publishing firm Longman, whose still anonymous 1800 edition was dedicated to John Kay. The book became generally known as Mangnall's Questions and was "the stand-by of generations of governesses and other teachers." It had appeared in 84 editions by 1857. Its "level, plain, humane" judgments have been associated with the Age of Enlightenment, and became more open to criticism in the Victorian age, although the catechism type of textbook remained dominant. The British Constitution met with her approval, as did her country's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, but Wellington was rebuked for vanity and egotism, and Rabelais for lacking "that delicacy without which genius may sparkle for a moment, but can never shine with pure, undiminished lustre." - See Wikipedia . *** "Charles Palmer Baldry was born on December 3, 1815, in Baddingham, Suffolk. He had one son with Sophia in October 1860. He died in 1881 at the age of 66." - Family History Research