17470 Children's Titles This is a facsimile of

This is a facsimile of the first edition

legal and military background

Otherwise tight

This copy from 1969 is the 3rd printing of the corrected second edition

Part of the Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature series

17470 Children's Titles This is a facsimile ofBarbauld [1743 1825] was a political writer, poet, teacher, essayist, edictor and critic. Running a school with her husband in a Suffolk village, she revolutionized the nation's ideas about childhood with books she wrote that sold thousands. Living in the time of the American and French Revolutions, Napoleonic Wars, and struggles for religious equality, she strove to defend Enlightenment principles with her essays, and political writings. Wordsworth