First Annual Report of the Board of Education, together with the First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board

8vo, 75pp. Stitched binding with two additional holes. Fair condition with an erosion to the upper corner of the first 20 pages. One or two letters lost in the headings, but fortunately no loss to the body of the text. “A far more important channel through which he disseminated a knowledge of existing conditions and needed reforms were the twelve annual reports which he prepared (1837--48) . . . the needs and remedies growing out of these problems are set forth with convincing clearness and with the fervor of a prophet and reformer.” (DAB)