Details

Subject(s)

• Children—Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Children—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Schoolboys—Pictorial works [Browse]

Bookseller

• Hookham and Carpenter (London, England) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• 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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