The Blackboard in the Sunday School. CLARKE (Benjamin).

A Plea for its Adoption by Teachers and Superintendents. With Specimen Lessons for the Class, the Desk, and Separate Services, by Various Teachers. Also Instructions as the Simple and Artistic Use of the Chalk by Frank Beard.

Black and white woodcut illustrations throughout.

First Edition. 8vo. [189 x 125 x 12 mm]. 137, [7] pp. Bound in the publisher's original grey cloth, the front cover blocked in black with a blackboard and the title, the rear cover blocked in blind, the spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow glazed endleaves, plain endleaves. (Slightly rubbed and marked).
London: [printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited for] Sunday School Union, 56 Old Bailey, E.C. [1884].

A little light spotting but a very good copy.

"There are comparatively few schools in which the blackboard forms a regular part of the class or school exercises; and this arises to a large extent, it is to be feared, from a very general impression that to use the blackboard with success implies a high standard of teaching power, and a considerable degree of artistic skill".

Stock no. ebc7510