The Roundwood Press

The press was set up by John Synge in order to print Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi’s works about his educational experiments in Yverdon. References to the press are contained in The Irish Book Lover, I, 4 (Nov. 1909), p.37. The information below was supplied to RICORSO by Marie Vergnon - with notes on her own copies.

 

1.] Reports of the School of Industry, at Hofwyl, in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. Translated from the Bibliotheque Britannique, published at Geneva in 1814. Dublin: Sold by Martin Keene, Bookseller, College Green-Thomas Bowes, 67, Lower Gardiner Street and at the Committee House for Charitable Societies, 16, Upper Sackville Street; 12mo.
 Title leaf + 6 + 71pp (1817). Title-page has a small wood-cut representing a hive of bees. On the verso is, ‘Printed by G. P. Bull, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow.’ The ‘Reports’ seem to be of the nature of a review, consisting practically of extracts, and spread over five numbers of the above periodical, i.e., from August to December, the heading of each part being the same, viz.:‘Report of the Institute for the Education of the Poor at Hofwy’ by M. Rengger, and published in the name of the Commission, appointed to examine the Establishment, Berne (1814). But probably the Report itself was divided into parts.

2.] The Relations and Description of Forms, according to the Principles of Pestalozzi. Part I, with four copperplate engravings. Dublin. Sold by Martin Keene, &c. (as in No. 1.) 12mo. Titleleaf x, 6, x, 206pp., leaf, x 63 x 36pp., and page of Errata (1817).
 The ‘Description, Relations, and an appendix have separate paginations. On the verso of the title-page is ‘Entered at Stationer’s Hall’, and ‘George P. Bull, Printer, Roundwood, Wicklow.’ (Engravings wanting in my copy.)

3.] Pestalozzi’s Intuitive Relations of Numbers, Part IV: Containing the use of the Second Table of Fractions. (With a large plate.) Dublin. Sold by R. M. Tims, 85, Grafton Street (opposite Duke Street.) 12mo. Title-leaf + 192pp. (1819).
 On the verso of the title-page is wood, Wicklow.’ (Plate wanting in my copy.)

4.] The Use of the Bean Table; or an Introduction to Addition, evidence Subtraction, and Numeration, with visible Objects. On the Principles of Pestalozzi. Dublin. Sold by R. M. Tims, 85, Grafton Street. Bull, Printer, Roundwood, Wicklow. 12mo. Title-leaf + 155pp. (1820).
 The wood cuts on the title-pages of the three last items are similar, but differ from that in No. 1.

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