Accession number
PML 85495.1
Published
Au Locle [Switzerland] : Chez Girardet freres et soeurs ; & a Neuchatel [Switzerland] : Chez Samuel Girardet fils, [ca. 1805].
Notes
T.p. is engraved.
One illustration signed: Ab[raham] Girardet del. Cl.Sl. [Charles-Samuel] Girardet sculp.
Dated by Gumuchian ca. 1789, but Charles-Samuel Girardet did not study engraving with his brother Abraham until 1805 (DBF fasc. XCI, p. 187).
With: Essai des premiers élémens. Au Locle: Chez Girardet ... , 1804. Probably bound together subsequent to publication.
One illustration signed: Ab[raham] Girardet del. Cl.Sl. [Charles-Samuel] Girardet sculp.
Dated by Gumuchian ca. 1789, but Charles-Samuel Girardet did not study engraving with his brother Abraham until 1805 (DBF fasc. XCI, p. 187).
With: Essai des premiers élémens. Au Locle: Chez Girardet ... , 1804. Probably bound together subsequent to publication.
Description
27, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm
Summary
Twenty-three pictures and moralizing paragraphs for 24 subjects, one for each letter of the alphabet (except I, W).
Binding
Quarter red roan, gilt, paste-paper boards.
Classification
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