SELECTIVE AND CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HORACE MANN.
- (Boston: Massachusetts Commissioner of Education James G. Reardon, 1937).
- 8vo.
- cloth
- xi, (iii), 54 pages
- ISBN: none
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First edition, issued as part of the Horace Mann Centennial (1837-1937). Exlibrary copy with markings. Else a fine copy. A bibliography, compiled by Workers of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Massachusetts. Second only to Horace Mann's interest in establishing the public school system in this country was his belief in the educational and cultural value of libraries, "always urging the need of books and libraries upon the towns." Bibliography divided into primary and secondary sources, including a biographical sketch.