Théodore Lefèvre - Nouvel Alphabet instructif et pittoresque. [abécédaire] - 1865

[ABÉCÉDAIRE]

New instructional and picturesque alphabet, or first book for children containing a large number of reading exercises and a selection of moral tales.

Paris, Théodore Lefèvre, [Circa 1865]. 1 vol. in-4 narrow. 48pp. Red percaline publisher, central medallion adorned with a woman presenting an alphabet to two young children, gold and black ornaments in a surround, beveled boards, gilt edges.

First illustrated edition of 108 pretty engravings colored by stenciling, some engraved by Gillot, Launay, Marchand...


The work comprises a frontispiece, a title page ornately vignetted, two leaves of the alphabet, followed by nine pages of alphabet illustrated with 53 animal vignettes, two to three per letter, each page containing three letters. Follow 19 pages of syllabaries, words and short phrases illustrated with two to three vignettes per page. Finally, seven short historiettes illustrated with vignettes and four plates with captions outside the text close the work.

This work may have been written by Théodore Lefèvre himself. He later signed similar works under the pseudonym Mme Doudet.

Small scuffs to the corners and spine ends. A small tear without loss on the lower margin of page 33.