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Poetry in praise of education

LAFARGUE, Étienne DE.
Poëme sur l'éducation, dédié à M. Le Comte Charles, Fils de M. Le Duc de Luynes.

With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry.

With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry.

With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry.

With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry.

With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry.



Paris, Chez Guillot, Librairie de Monsieur, 1788. Sm.8vo. Contemp. green morocco, spine gilt with red title-label and decorated with charming small gilt harpsichords, with gilt triple fillet borders on sides with small gilt flowers at the four corners, gilt binding edges, g.e. With full-page engraved plate showing a young boy studying at home with his private tutor and his father watching, 4  finely engraved headings for each stanza of the educational poem, and several charming woodcut tail-pieces to the added fables and miscellaneous poetry. (4), XVIII, 135, (9) pp.

First edition of a beautifully illustrated and well produced work on education, offered by Étienne de Lafargue (1728-1795), a famous French author and member of various Academies of Sciences, Literature and Arts, to the young son of a hight aristocrat. It praises the work of a teacher as well as parental education, while at the same time presenting sound instruction, wise lessons and advice to youth. First an extensive poem in four songs touches upon the duties of fathers, teachers, pupils and the advantage of education with use of examples taken from history, mythology, classical authors, etc. Next wise lessons are presented in the form of fables, thirteen in total. And finally "Pieces Fugitives" teach elegant conversation and letter writing, including a dialogue between a ten and eleven years old, all put in verse.

Fine copy.
Cioranescu 35596; Cohen-De Ricci 545.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Courtesy Books  Education  Fable Books  French 

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