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First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 217pp; portrait frontispiece with black and white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear with sunning to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with modest shelf-wear and soil, and chips and tiny tears to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Explores Bronson Alcott's theories and impact on education, with a focus on his teaching experiences in Chesire, Connecticut and a Temple School in Boston, and his time as a superintendent. Nine photographic illustrations include 'Page from Bronson Alcott's Journals, 1879', 'The Temple School', and 'Alcott House, Ham Common, Surrey'. [84157].