SYNTAX, STENOGRAPHY, AND SOLAR MICROSCOPES
HODSON, Thomas.
The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System of liberal Education … Embellished with twenty Copper-plates and six Maps, neatly engraved … The second Edition …
London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and Hood, 1802.
Two vols, 8vo, pp. I: viii, 470; II: viii, 458; with a half-title to vol. II; engraved frontispiece in vol. I (dated 1 January 1804), 20 folding plates of diagrams, 6 folding engraved maps; some scattered foxing throughout, short closed marginal tear to M3, two plates somewhat frayed and browned at edges where protruding from textblock; else a good set in contemporary half marbled calf, marbled paper sides; spines a little dry and rubbed, slight wear to corners; 1805 ownership inscription of Charles Davie to front pastedowns.
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The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System of liberal Education … Embellished with twenty Copper-plates and six Maps, neatly engraved … The second Edition …
Second edition, revised, of a voluminous catch-all schoolbook (first published 1800), by Thomas Hodson, of the Middle Temple.
The work, STEM-heavy for an industrial age, covers English grammar, penmanship, arithmetic, accounting, architecture, optics, algebra, annuities, trigonometry, logarithms, geography, astronomy, mechanics, electricity, pneumatics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, and drawing; likely much of the content is plagiarised from other sources. Hodson also published a Cabinet of the Arts (1805), both works passing through several editions.
The preface, slightly updated from the first edition, notes that calculation errors have been corrected, and that the favourable reception of the first edition has alleviated an ‘afflicting dispensation of Divine Providence’, rendering tolerable the author’s ‘uninterrupted confinement to his room, which has now continued upwards of eighteen years’.
Provenance: Charles Davie (1765–1836), son of John Davie of Orleigh Court, Devon, who matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1784, and proceeded BA in 1788, and MA in 1790. He became vicar of Buckland Brewer in 1790, rector of Heanton Punchardon in 1791, and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral from 1803 until his death.
