Vintage General History Colleges And High Schools Philip V N Myers 1897 Brown HC

Title: A General History for Colleges and High Schools.  Author: Philip Van Ness Myers (P. V. N. Myers, A.M., professor of history and political economy at the University of Cincinnati).  Publisher: Ginn & Company, Boston, U.S.A., and London; 1897 printing with United States typography and presswork credited to J. S. Cushing & Co. and Ginn & Co., Boston.  Format: Vintage 19th-century world history textbook in English, issued as a hardcover volume for college and high school students.  Binding: Original brown cloth boards with contrasting dark spine panel in the typical late-nineteenth-century schoolbook style.  Interior: Front matter includes a black-and-white frontispiece of classical ruins facing the title page, followed by copyright information referencing the 1889 Act of Congress entry by P. V. N. Myers.  Contents: Narrative survey of general and world history designed for instructional use in colleges and high schools, reflecting late nineteenth-century educational perspectives.  Subject/genre: World history, educational textbook, college and secondary school reference, nineteenth-century American pedagogy.  Language and printing: Text in English; printed in the United States of America with simultaneous London imprint by Ginn & Company.  Special attributes: Pre-ISBN era academic volume with no modern ISBN, UPC, or EAN barcode identifiers printed in or on the book.