The Manual of Youth
London: For H.D. Symonds, 1807. First Edition. Octavo. Item #019979
404pp.,(4)pp. general index, French & English text. From the Library of Marjorie Moon, collector of childrens books, with her bookplate. In three parts. I. Contains sixty fables, French and English, ornamented with 120 cuts representing the subjects of the fables in the French Part; and furnishing, in the English part, a series of elementary lessons, in the several styles of drawing. II. Remarks on rhetoric, with various examples on the different styles, figures and tropes. III. A large collection of extracts, in prose and verse. selected from the most approved authors, English and French. Bound in original drab boards backed in blue cloth, paper spine label. Cloth nearly separated at upper joint, label chipped. Some chipping to spine ends. A good copy of this very uncommon work.
Price: $325.00