CHOICE OF PURSUITS; OR, WHAT TO DO, AND WHY, DESCRIBING SEVENTY-FIVE TRADES AND PROFESSIONS, AND THE TALENTS AND TEMPERAMENTS REQUIRED FOR EACH; ALSO, HOW TO EDUCATE, ON PHRENOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES, EACH MAN FOR HIS PROPER WORK; TOGETHER WITH PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES OF MANY SUCCESSFUL THINKERS AND WORKERS.
New York: Fowler & Wells Co., [1876] 1883. Later Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 7 1/2 in. x 5 1/4 in brick red cloth boards with black leaf-and-frond border framing front board with elaborately-initialed lettering to front board. (The black design to front, is repeated on rear board) , but this time, in blind. Gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to edges and light bumping to corners.
This is the Original Book -- NOT a latter-day reproduction! Very Good. Item #85394
" 'What Ought I to Do?' and 'How Should I be Educated for Duty?' are important questions. This book deals with them pointedly, and may be read with profit by all successive generations. A story once read is dismissed. This book will bear fifty readings. Every page is full of instruction. No one, with a true sense of its value, would be without it." (Publisher's Preface, p. iv).
The book is dedicated "to parents and teachers who have to guide and instruct the young in all that relates to their character, talent, and future good; and to Young Men and Women who have to sustain themselves by Labor of Head or of Hand, and who, above all things, honestly desire to find The Right Pursuit, and to cultivate and employ all their powers in the most useful and successful manner..."
The author also wrote "How to Teach; or, Phrenology in the School-Room and the Family" and "Thoughts on Domestic Life, or Marriage Vindicated and Free Love Exposed";.
Price: $40.00