HELME (William).

Evenings Rationally Employed; or, Moral and Entertaining Incentives to Virtue and Employment.

Brentford, Printed by and for P. Norbury and Sold by T. Hurst et al. 1803. First edition. Contemporary sheep. 12mo. pp. viii. 263. Osborne I, page 259. Helme and his novelist wife Elizabeth ("Louisa, or, The Cottage on the Moor") taught at a school in Brentford suffering financial difficulties all their lives. "A tutor endeavours to develop the character of his pupils and to supply them with a fund of general knowledge" (Osborne). Engraved frontispiece. One page undated advertisements. Head and foot of spine worn.

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