Some Thoughts concerning Education. [Pitt Press Series] With an Introduction and Notes by The Rev. R. H. Quick. Stereotyped Edition

Cambridge At the University Press, 1899. Small 8vo, 166 x 111 mms., pp. lix [lx blank], 240 [241 - 248 adverts], original cloth, blocked in gilt on spine (faded), bookseller's ticket of "R. Daniell/ Aberystwyth" on front paste-down end-paper; extensively underlined and annotated throughout; upper inner margin of title-page defective. Quick's edition was first published in 1880, and a second edition was published in 1884. This copy is underlined and annotated throughout, with over 90 pages having some sort of marginal note, underlining, or a comment (my favourite occurs at the top of page 25, "overfeeding and drinking common n Locke's time"), and with notes on both paste-down end-papers. The ownership inscription "J. E. Grittiths" and the initials "M. C. W." appears on the front paste-down end-paper, with lines through both the name and the initials. I think this is J. E. Griffiths (1841-1918), minister of Horeb Welsh Baptist church, Skewen, Glamorgan, who was the father of John Powell Griffiths (1875-1944), an influential Welsh schoolmaster. So far as one can tell, the handwritten comments are in the same hand. The Welsh bookseller R. Daniell advertised on occasion in The Bookseller around the turn of the century (c.1900-1903), but other than that I've found nearly nothing else on him. The editor is Robert Herbert Quick (1831 - 1891). One of the annotations suggests a bit of nit-picking: on page 30, where Locke has written "avoid Pain at any rate," the lat word has been underlined and "cost" written in the margin. The manuscript annotations include many parallels and many dissimilarities are noted with reference to historical thinkers, including Newton (p. 2, p. 3); Plato (p. 21); Montaigne (p. 28); Shakes[peare] (p. 42); Samuel Johnson (p. 43); Milton (p. 106); Ascham (p. 145); and Gibbon (p. 148), to name a few. Attig 556.