Description of the Mount Vernon School in 1832 Being a Brief Account of the Internal Arrangements and Plans of the Institution Addressed to a New Scholar by Abbott, Jacob - 1832

Boston: self published / printed by Peirce and Parker. Leather spine with paper covered boards. 71 pages. Picture of Jacob Abbott's Son Lyman Abbott inside front cover. Gift inscription on endpaper signed by Jacob Abbott's Son Lyman and his grandson Lawrence. Before Jacob Abbott became an author of the popular Rollo books and many other children's books, he started a girls' school in Boston in 1829. This book is a student's handbook for the school. Newspaper clippings inside back cover. These are the obituary of Lyman Abbott. Cover is worn and a bit stained. Leather spine has short splits at top and bottom of spine. Some foxing and staining in book. Quite an interesting item relating to this popular early American author. . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1832.