Very rare work by D. C. Dudley, Principal of the Kentucky Institution for the Education of Deaf Mutes, the first public school for deaf mutes in America.
No other examples on the market at any price of this title or of any title by this press run by the non-hearing and speaking community of the institution itself.
Dudley, D. C. Arthmetic for Deaf Mutes. Danville, Kentucky, Printed at the Kentucky Deaf Mute Office by the Pupils of the Institution. 1882. 200pp.
Quarter leather in very crisp condition; small to leather on front hinge. Paper printed boards handled a shown. Interior crisp and clean.
Ownership marks of Elisabeth Cervenka of the School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota and James Bowen, indicating his teacher as Mr. J. P. Kelly [later Principal of the Minnesota institution.
