Education Reform; or, the Necessity of a National System of Education.

First edition, vol. 1 [all published], 8vo (220 x 135 mm), xi, [1], 553, [1] + 16pp., of publishers adverts, with half-title, orig. publishers brown blind-stamped cloth, unopened, uncut, a fine copy. An important work on education of the Irish poor. Sir Thomas Wyse (1791-1862), Irish politician and diplomat, he was educated at Stonyhurst College and at Trinity College Dublin, where he distinguished himself as a scholar. After the Napoleonic was ended in 1815 he spent several years travelling, visiting Greece, Egypt and Palestine, after which he returned to Ireland to join the campaign for Roman Catholic emancipation. However, it was his work as an educational pioneer where he excelled. His was specially anxious to secure some improvement in the education of the Irish people, and some of his proposals were accepted by Edward Stanley, later 14th Earl of Derby, and the government, he was chairman of a committee which inquired into the condition of education in Ireland, and it was partly owing to his efforts that provincial colleges were established at Cork, Galway and Belfast.