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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later Edition. 168pp., including index. Contemporary purple quarter roan, marbled sides, spine gilt-lettered direct and with triple rules in gilt, marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed, occasional foxing, a very good copy. "The Twelve Virtues of a Good Teacher" by Brother Agathon, 5th Superior General of the Christian Brothers, is, after the monumental text known as "The Conduct of Schools", the most significant work in education in the Lasallian heritage. Translated from the original French into Italian in 1797 and into English, Spanish, Dutch and German during the 19th century, the work was a major text in many Catholic teaching colleges until the 1930s.…