Celebrated work on education by Richard Edgeworth and his talented daughter Maria. Hunter. Published in London in 1815. 2 Vols. The author, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, ( 1744 - 1817),was an Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist who had a dominant influence on the celebrated novels of his daughter Maria Edgeworth, who co-authored this work. Condition:Marbled boards with quarter leather binding and corner caps. Gilt lettering to spine. Some losses (see photograph). Ex-libris (University of Reading), hence usual stamps. Split along spine between front paste-down and title page in both vols.Some browning and foxing to text commensurate with age, but overall clear and readable. Bookplate in each Volume \"Ex Libris H Clive Barnard & Coll. AEn. Nas apud Oxon\" Barnard was a well-known late- Victorian educational historian.Vol 1:, 491 pp; vol II, 502pp + 2 folding plates.