JOHNSON (Samuel). An Essay on Education. A Poem. In two Parts. I. The Pedant. II. The Preceptor. Price two Shillings and Sixpence.1771

Shrewsbury: Printed by Stafford Pryse. First Edition, 4to, iv,45,[1]pp., without the final advertisement leaf for Johnson's school, title page rather dusty with a small hole repair to blank margin, title within a triple line manuscript border, rebound in marbled boards. Samuel Johnson (1738-1798), a Shrewsbury schoolmaster, wrote several poems between 1768 and 1782.