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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Minus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Minus. Second Edition, First Impression. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket which is clean, crisp and bright except for slight fading to spine and top edge, and minor rubbing/creasing to edges. No chips or tears. Green boards clean, bright and sharp with ever-so- slight warping to upper board, and vertical crease to spine. Contents clean and white without bookplates, inscriptions, foxing or other markings. Introduction by Sir Michael Sadler and a chapter by Lord Shuttleworth. x, 365 pp; 4 b/w plates as called for. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First published in 1923 by John Murray. James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-1877) was a physician, public-health reformer, and chief founder of the English system of publicly financed elementary education. Having obtained his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1827, James Kay-Shuttleworth worked as a physician in Britain's industrial towns where he became deeply concerned about the social and educational needs of the poor. In 1835 he became an assistant poor-law commissioner, and his efforts to educate pauper children in workhouses convinced him of the need for a national system of education and teacher training. In 1839 Kay-Shuttleworth was appointed first secretary to the council set up to administer the government's annual education grants. Together with E. Carleton Tufnell, he founded St. John's College in Battersea, London, which was the first training college for schoolteachers in England. He introduced a system for the inspection by government officials of those schools receiving a grant. He also expanded and improved the pupil-teacher system, in which intellectually promising youths aged 13-18 simultaneously taught in elementary schools and received secondary education from the heads of those schools. Kay-Shuttleworth's health collapsed in 1848 but throughout his retirement he continued to promote state education through numerous publications, including articles on the results of the Education Act of 1870. "Shuttleworth was a giant among public servants and the architect of a plan which three generations after his death became a completed structure. To him more than anyone else we owe a debt of gratitude for the fact that this country today is equipped with schools 'for the children of her people' and that this enormous task was completed without a major battle between Church, State and Local Authorities.' - Jacket blurb. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without text leaf.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

A total of 12pp, 12mo. On bifoliums. All addressed to 'Dear Shuttleworth'. In good condition, lightly aged. A curious feature of the four letters is that the handwriting of each differs from the others. ONE: 7 April 1880. Trevelyan condoles with Shuttleworth, who has lost his Hastings seat in the General Election. He states that he is 'so heartily disgusted' with Shuttleworth's constituents, adding 'The loss, most temporary I feel sure, to the House will be very sensible, and I shall sorely miss you as a friend. I am sure no one less deserved a misfortune either by want of party loyalty or political energy.' He takes comfort in his belief that 'every man of a certain stamp begins with a bad seat, and changes to a good one; with all the more credit if he sticks to the good one to the last.' Postscript: 'My polling is not till the 12th! I have been electioneering in North Northumberland in the meanwhile.' TWO: 25 November 1883. He has to decline Shuttleworth's invitation, as 'From the day we came to Ireland, till the Session begins, we shall not be able to leave it, except for the inside of a week, when I shall be speaking to my constituents.' He is 'sorry to miss this pleasant visit: but we have nothing pleasant and that is about the long and short of it.' He hopes Shuttleworth 'will have pleasing meetings with Hartington', whom he is sure 'will speak well and wisely'. THREE: 3 February 1897. Shuttleworth's letter, written on Trevelyan's resignation from parliament, is 'kindness itself', but 'The fact is that I am really unfit for the work of public life, and cannot possibly stay in it. But with a regular and quiet régime I hope I may yet be able to get a fair amount of other work done.' He regrets 'losing the comradeship with you, which has been one of unbroken confidence and satisfaction on my part. Happily friendship is quite as likely to gain as to lose among people who both livein London at the due time.' He and his wife are concerned at Lady Shuttleworth's illness, and think Shuttleworth is 'wise to get her abroad'. Letter ends: 'I value very much your description of me as "an old and dear friend," which I heartily reciprocate'. FOUR: 29 June 1911. He has had 'great pleasure' from Shuttleworth's letter: 'I like to be told, however well I know it, that you regard yourself as an "old and attached friend." Since we rode together in the Park in the sixties we have both gone far, through some rough ways; and have both reached a happy goal, in the world, and still more in our respective homes.'.