At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street

printed text

  • Author: Towle, Christopher.
  • Title: At Mr. Christopher Towles, in High-Street, in Coventry, and at Miss Towles, in Penny-Farthing-Street, in Oxford. Young ladies are genteely boarded, and taught … Mr. Towle, teaches all sorts of English, French, Italion [sic], and Flemish, slow and quick dances … Signed by me Christopher Towle.
  • Published: Newport-Pagnell : Printed by B. Leverett …, [1783]

Catalog Record

File 659 783T

Acquired June 2022

At the Academy, No. 8 Soho Square, London

trade card

  • Author: Soho Academy (London, England)
  • Title: At the Academy, No. 8 Soho Square, London, young gentlemen are bearded & taught the English, French, Latin & Greek languages, writing, arithmetic, geography, book-keeping, and the mathematics, at 2 guineas entrance & 28 guineas a year …
  • Publication: [London] : [Soho Academy], [approximately 1800]

Catalog Record

File 659 805 So682

Acquired May 2020

Mrs. Edwards, Paragon, Black Heath

description below

Date based on the February 1813 lease to Mrs. Rebecca Edwards of No. 12 ‘The Paragon’ Blackheath, which appears to have been acquired to open her school for ladies.
Engraved throughout; with greek-key and hatchwork border.
Text continues with itemized price list for “The elements of astronomy and geography scientifically”, “Music”, “Drawing”, and “Writing”, followed by the statement “Latin, Greek and Italian by respectable masters”.

 

  • Title: Mrs. Edwards, Paragon, Black Heath. Ladies instructed in the useful attainments and elegant accomplishments. General tuition and French grammatically, forty five guineas per annum. Entrance three guineas …
  • Publication: [London] : [Mrs. Edwards], [1813]

Catalog Record

File 659 813 M939

Acquired May 2020

Charity School, Dover, supported by voluntary contributions

  • Author: Dover Charity School (Dover, England)
  • Title: Charity School, Dover, supported by voluntary contributions. On Sunday next, the 19th of September, 1819, a sermon in behalf of this insitution, will be preached in the churches of Saint Mary and Saint James / by The Rev. G. Simpson, M.A. Vicar of Bobbing.
  • Publication: [London] : [The School], [1819]

Catalog Record

File 659 819 D743

Acquired June 2019

 

Address to the Governor of The Saint Ann’s Society Schools

  • Author: Saint Ann’s Society Schools.
  • Title: Address to the Governor of The Saint Ann’s Society Schools : spoken by one of the boys, at the anniversary festival, 2nd July 1829.
  • Publication: [London] : [The Hospital?], [1829]

Catalog Record

File 659 829 Sa132

Acquired June 2019