The Deaf and Dumb: or, a Collection of Articles Relating to the Condition of Deaf Mutes; Their Education, and the Principal Asylums Devoted to their Instruction

First edition of this collection of articles composed and compiled by Edwin John Mann, a deaf author and graduate of The American Asylum at Hartford for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford. Now known as the American School for the Deaf, the American Asylum at Hartford was the first school for deaf children in the United States, founded by by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Mason Cogswell, and Laurent Clerc in 1817. Original boards, publisher's paper label to spine, with 19th century paper library label below.

The present book includes snippets of articles published related to the education of the deaf, as well as original poems and compositions by Mann. This copy was recently deaccessioned from the library of Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, with their bookplate to front pastedown and a handwritten accession note from 1899 to the front free endpage; page faces slightly foxed, else internally unmarked and clean.