Bibliography of Stow’s work

Title	Publisher if known	Edition/cost/no. of pages	Date	Some locations of the original
Bible Training for Sabbath Schools
Bible Training with illustrations for the use of Sabbath schools	Glasgow W.R. McPhun	Fourth Edition ‘Fourth thousand’ 72 pages 6d	1837	Advertised GES Fourth Report Google Books National Library of Scotland (Microfilm) University of Edinburgh
Bible-training: with illustrations for the use of Sabbath schools; being the religious department of the training system for week-day schools Manual for Sabbath School Teachers and Parents	Glasgow W. R. McPhun	‘Fifth Thousand’	1838	University of Edinburgh Library British Library
Bible Training for Sabbath schools, and week-day schools	Glasgow Blackie	7^th Edition 119 pages	1842	Cambridge University Library Google Books University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge
Bible Training for Sabbath Schools and for the Morning Exercise in Week Day Schools.	Blackie & Son London	8^th Edition Enlarged 168 pages	1847 (1846)	University of Strathclyde Fitch states 1857 Quoted by Houseman Google Books British Library University of Newcastle
Bible training for day schools and Sabbath schools: skeleton sketches for training lessons Appendix to Stow’s Training System, 10^th Edition			1854	University of Strathclyde
Bible Training: A Manual for Sabbath School Teachers and Parents.	Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co.	9^th Edition enlarged	1859	University of Edinburgh Library Bodleian Library, Oxford National Library of Scotland British Library University of Cambridge
Bible Emblems
Bible Emblems, with sketches of lessons, for the use of Sabbath school teachers Part 1	London	Part 1	1855	University of Strathclyde, Bodleian Library, Oxford British Library Aberdeen University University of Cambridge
Bible Emblems for the use of Parents and Teachers with Practical Hints in conducting training lessons.	London		1857	University of Strathclyde, Paisley Central Library Bodleian Library, Oxford British Library University of Cambridge
Chapters in Infant Training (by a ‘director’) Granny and Leezy: a dialogue, explanatory of the system adopted in the model infant school, Glasgow	Collins		1833	Strathclyde University Library Jordanhill Campus Mitchell Library University of Edinburgh Library
Chapters IV and V of ‘Of Moral Training Infant and Juvenile, as applicable to the condition of the population of large towns,’	Glasgow William Collins	2^nd Edition	1834	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Granny and Leezy
Granny and Leezy: Infant Training, A dialogue explanatory of the System Adopted in the Model Infant School, Glasgow	Glasgow, William Collins	This edition catalogued as Granny and Leezy, but is actually the ‘lost’ 1^st Edition of ‘The Training System’.	1833	Mitchell Library, Glasgow University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh
Granny and Leezy: A dialogue, or Grandmother’s first visit to the Infant Training School	Glasgow W. R. McPhun	5^th Edition enlarged 6d	By 1837 Ad. GES Fourth Report	University of Edinburgh Library
Granny and Leezy: A Scottish Dialogue. Grandmother’s visit to the First Infant Training School	Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts	6^th Edition	1860	University of Strathclyde Faculty of Education library Mitchell Library, Glasgow University of Edinburgh Moray House Library National Library of Scotland British Library University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge
The Glasgow Infant School Society First Report	William Collins and Co.	32	1829	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Infant School Society Second Report	William Collins and Co.	24	1830	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Educational Society II: (Hints towards the formation of a Normal Seminary)			1835	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Educational Society’s Normal Seminary Third Report	William Collins and Co.	37	1836	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Educational Society’s Normal Seminary Fourth Report	William Collins and Co.	29	1837	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Educational Society’s Normal Seminary Fifth Report	Publisher noted stated but probably William Collins and Co.	36	1839	University of Strathclyde Library
National Education
Supplement to Moral training and the training system; with plans for erecting and fitting up training school. (With Speech of R. A. Slaney in the House of Commons, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 1837, on the state of education of the poorer classes in large towns)			1837	University of Cardiff Library University of Glasgow Library National Library of Scotland University of Aberdeen University of Cambridge
National Education: supplement to ‘Moral Training’ and ‘The Training System’, with plans for erecting and fitting up training schools	Glasgow W. R. McPhun		1839	University of Glasgow Library University of Edinburgh Library Cambridge University Library (Facsimile) National Library of Scotland British Library University of Aberdeen
National Education: the duty of England in regard to the moral and intellectual elevation of the poor and working classes: teaching or training	London Hatchard and Son		1847	University of Glasgow Library University of Edinburgh Library University of Cambridge Library National Library of Scotland Bodleian Library British Library
The Training System Stow’s manual of instruction for school-teachers and managers, variously entitled but collectively known as ‘The Training System’, ran to eleven editions. Extant copies of all are accessible in UK libraries. The seventh, eighth and tenth editions are available unabridged on the Internet via Google Books (www.books.google.com/). The tenth edition has also been reprinted as a facsimile by Elibron Classics, (www.elibron.com) and Kessinger Publishing (www.kessinger.net). The eleventh edition is available at https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28moral%20training%20for%20large%20towns%29 Acomparison of the chapter content of each edition has been undertaken and is available separately.
Infant Training, A dialogue explanatory of the System Adopted in the Model Infant School, Glasgow	Glasgow, William Collins	1^st Edition Often regarded as ‘lost’. This edition catalogued and Granny and Leezy, see Appendices.	1833	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
Moral Training Infant and Juvenile, as applicable to the condition of the population of Large Towns	Glasgow William Collins	2^nd Edition 18 mo 3s 6d cloth	1834	Mitchell Library, Glasgow British Library
The Training System adopted in the model schools of the Glasgow Educational Society: A manual for Infant and Juvenile schools which includes a system of Moral Training suited to the condition of Large Towns	W. R. McPhun	3^rd Edition 18 mo, 3s cloth 237 pages	1836	Glasgow University Library National Library of Scotland National Library of Wales Mitchell Library, Glasgow Google Books British Library John Rylands Library, Manchester
The Training System established in the Glasgow Normal Seminary and its Model Schools.	London	4^th Edition The ‘New’ Edition	1840	Paisley Central Library Bodleian Library Oxford (2 copies) National Library of Scotland University of Wales (Aberystwyth)
Moral Training and the Training System established in the Glasgow Normal Seminary and its model Schools. It may have been this edition which was translated into German, see A letter from W. Hauser to John Miller, 21st, December 1844, quoted “The Training System”, sixth edition, 1845.	London	5^th Edition	1841	University of Strathclyde Glasgow, G4 0NS Scotland University of Edinburgh Moray House Library
The Training System of Education, Religious, Intellectual and Moral as established in the Glasgow Normal Training Seminary. Rearranged with additions	Glasgow: Blackie and Sons	6^th Edition	1845	University of Cambridge Library
The Training System, Religious, Intellectual and Moral. A manual for Schools; also an analysis of the System of Training School-masters as established in the Glasgow Normal Seminary	Glasgow: Blackie and Son	7^th Edition	1846	Available in Google Books in online .pdf format British Library (adds ‘Enlarged’
The Training System, the Moral Training System and the Normal Seminary.	London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans	8^th Edition (Enlarged)	1850	Cardiff University Library Cambridge University Library National Library of Scotland British Library Available in Google Books in online .pdf format
The Training System, the Moral Training System and the Normal Seminary.	London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans	9^th Edition (Enlarged)	1853	Edinburgh University Library National Library of Scotland Cambridge University Library Bodleian Library, Oxford British Library
The Training System, Moral Training School and Normal Seminary for Preparing School-trainers and Governesses.	London: Long, Brown, Green and Longmans	10^th Edition (Enlarged)	1854	Glasgow University Library Cambridge University Library Bodleian Library, Oxford National Library of Scotland University of Edinburgh British Library University of Sheffield University of Leicester
The Training System of Education including ‘Moral School Training for Large Towns’ and ‘Normal Seminary for Training Teachers to Conduct the System’	London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts	11^th Edition (Enlarged)	1859	Strathclyde University Faculty of Education library National Library of Wales National Library of Scotland The London Library Cambridge University Library Bodleian Library, Oxford British Library
Short articles
Infant Schools Article in ‘Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow’ by James Cleland			1831	Strathclyde University Library
Pamphlet revered to in J.R.S.C. (1869) David Stow in The Sunday School Teacher, Vol. II. London: Sunday School Union, pps. 221-225			1832	Not currently traced.
Infant Schools Article in ‘Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow’ by James Cleland		2^nd Edition	1832	Strathclyde University Library
Physical and moral training			1832
Hints Towards the Formation of A Normal Seminary in Glasgow for the Professional Training of Schoolmasters. No author, believed to be by Stow, but possibly by David Welsh?		II	1835	Strathclyde University Library
Memoranda: or Practical Hints on The Training System for the use of the students of the Glasgow Normal Seminary.			1838
Letters: Stow to Dr. Thomas Chalmers and vice versa				University of Edinburgh New College
Outlines of the Training System		2d	By 1837 Advertised separately in GES Fourth Report
Moral Training in Large Towns		18 mo, 3s 6d, cloth Advertised separately in GES Fourth Report	By 1837
Practical Hints on the Training System, addressed to the Students of the Glasgow Normal Seminary		4d Advertised separately in GES Fourth Report	By 1837
Key to the First Spelling Book		2d Advertised separately in GES Fourth Report	By 1837
Picturing out in words in the Scottish Sabbath School Teachers’ Magazine Vol. 1			1844
Factory statistics: extracted from Stow’s training system of education: religious, moral and intellectual	London: Blackie and Son		1846	University of Massachusetts
Report of the 25^th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; held at Glasgow in September			1855
Gallery Training Lessons: orally conducted in natural science and common things	London: Trubner and Co.	In ‘The American Journal of Education’ edited by Henry Barnard Vol. IX	1860	Google Books WorldCat Boston Public Library
The Glasgow Infant School magazine
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		January-December 290 pps	1832	University of Strathclyde Library
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine	Gallie	2^nd Edition	1834	University of Glasgow Library? Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		3^rd Edition	1835	University of Glasgow Library Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine			1843	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Repository	Gallie, Collins, and Hamilton, Glasgow;	4^th Edition Improved	1849	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		Second Series	1854	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		First Series	1857	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		First Series	1860	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine	London: Darton and Co. Holborn Hill,	Second Series Ninth Thousand	1861	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		First Series	1867	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine		Second Series	1869	Mitchell Library, Glasgow
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine	London: Simpkin, Marshall	First (Collected) Series 348 pps	1869	University of Strathclyde
The Glasgow Infant School Magazine	Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.	First Series Forty-Third Thousand 348 pps	1875	University of Strathclyde

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