Lewis DiocletianABAA
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186264822Boston MA: np 1862. Small broadsheet. 12.5 x 8 cm. 2 pp. Very good. Dr. Lewis believed women and children just like men needed to exercise. Lewis founded his Institute for Physical Education in the spring of 1861 with Cornelius Felton President of Harvard who also served as President of the Institute. The broadsheet quotes an endorsement by Felton of the exercise system developed by Lewis Felton died in February of 1862 helping to date this piece. The course of exercise seems to cure most anything. Separate classes were offered for ladies combined courses for lads and misses and a combined lesson for ladies and gentlemen. Terms 12 lessons at 2 per week $5 24 at 2 per week $9 and six month season ticket at $16. Diocletian Lewis 1823-1886 was also a temperance leader and a proponent of homeopathy. <br/><br/> np unknown books
186213507Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 274 pp plus publisher's ads in original blind-stamped brown cloth. Extensively illustrated with line drawings demonstrating exercises. Spine faded and cocked some signatures loosening at the bottom. Text quite clean. Gift inscription to Sarah Frances Dorr from her husband in April 1862 on front flyleaf and another gift inscription dated 1973 on the facing page; small nautical bookplate of E.P. Dorr on front pastedown. The author was "a prominent temperance leader and physical culture advocate who practiced homeopathy and was the inventor of the beanbag" wiki. Ticknor and Fields hardcover books