viridet j (2 risultati)

PF. Condizione: New.

Leather. Condizione: Good. None (illustratore). A sammelband of nineteenth century, mostly French, essays and biographies on education and the role of education in a lovely quarter calf binding with marbled boards Comprising of five separate works bound as one. The first work is a memoir of the German educator and author, Bernhard Heinrich Overberg translated from its original German into English. He was a key player in the reformation of schools during the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century. The second work to this book is a critical work on the schools in Geneva by J a Dufour. The third work is a work on the purpose of popular education by Marc Viridet. The fourth work is a further essay on the council of education and has been translated from the original German, with no indication of author or translator. The fifth and final work to this book is an English title by Henry George Watkins and discusses the alternates to a formal education and gives advice to apprentices engaged in trades or profession. Watkins' view is that 'the sooner young people begin to be instructed in some honest trade it is better for them'. Watkins praises the apprenticeship and this method of education. The first four works are in French with the fifth and final work in English. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Externally, very smart with patches of minor rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Light rubbing to the boards and some minor bumping to the extremities. Rear hinge has failed with the backstrip lifting from the text-block. Internally, firmly bound. Small tear to the title page of 'Considerations'. Pages to the first four works are bright with the pages to 'Affectionate Advice' being age toned due to paper used. Just the occasional light spots to pages. Good. book.