8vo. xxxv[i], 363,[1]. Collated complete and correct, with half-title, and errata to verso of final leaf. Original publishers boards, edges uncut, paper spine, somewhat worn, an unsophisticated copy. Vicesimus Knox was an interesting and erudite man: a clergyman who became Headmaster of Tonbridge School, and suffered professionally because of his pacifist views. In this work, he urges the nobility to become learned not, as would Chesterfield for the sake of their position in society, but rather so as to avoid the fate of the revolution in France, saying that they have to show themselves to be useful and beneficial to the country. Rather a rare printing, with ESTC giving only one example in the UK, and three in North America. ESTC N11098.