First English edition of Kleine Seelenlehre für Kinder by Joachim Campe.
Presented in the form of 14 dialogues between a tutor and his pupils.
Prefatory poem of dedication to the Countess of Genlis
Signatures: [A]⁸( -A7,8) B-N⁸.
Illustrations: 16 engraved plates throughout the text, including one showing an affluent young man giving money to child-beggers and another a "blockhead" seated at a desk as he fails a test for an apprenticeship because he has ignored his tutor's direction to study.
Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Miss Caroline Symmons, the gift of Mr. R. Edwards, Bond Street, Decbr. 26, 96"
Binding note
Contemporary Etruscan style calf, including covers with blind-worked urn within sunburst-style pattern and gilt pentaglyph and metrope borders and gilt-paneled spine with black morocco label; gilt edge roll.
References
ESTC, T100443
Other title(s)
Campe's dialogues
Kleine Seelenlehre für Kinder.
OCLC
14875828
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