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GARCIN, Jean.
Le vrai patineur, ou principes sur l'art de patiner avec grace, précédé de réflexions et de remarques critiques sur la manière de quelques patineurs inélégans, ainsi que sur les différens formes de patins, le choix quel'on doit en faire, et les variations dont cette chaussure est susceptible.

With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring.

With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring.

With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring.

With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring.

With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring.



Paris, Delespinasse, Delaunaux, Nepveu, the author, 1813. Small 8vo. Wrappers. With frontispiece giving an overall view of a skating-rink, engraved by Ambroise Tardieu, and 7 engraved plates, each showing a skater in a different position, all in contemporary handcolouring. XXIV, 93, [1 blank] pp.

First edition of the first French skating manual, describing many graceful figures. Unlike English skaters who advocated a more straightforward approach, Garcin compared skating with dancing, stressing grace and artistry rather than technicality and precision. The work, dedicated to Mademoiselle Gosselin, first dancer at the Académie Imperial de Musique, was one of the earliest separate works entirely devoted to blade-skating in any language.

Spine slightly damaged, some plates misbound. A fine copy.
Foster, Bibliography of Skating, 35; cf. Brown, Ice-Skating, pp. 57-64; Lipperheide 3042w.

Related Subjects: Children's Books  French  Games & Pastimes  Ice-skating 

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