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Les elemens, ou, Premières instructions de la jeunesse / par E'tienne de Ble'gny.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1712 Blegny
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blégny, Étienne de.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Early works to 1800.
- Education.
- Copybooks--Early works to 1800.
- Copybooks.
- Penmanship--Early works to 1800.
- Penmanship.
- French language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800.
- French language.
- Letter-writing, French--Early works to 1800.
- Letter-writing, French.
- Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
- Arithmetic.
- Genre:
- Writing books -- France -- Paris -- 1712.
- Physical Description:
- [xii], 20 p., [40] plates, 323, [5] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Other Title:
- Premières instructions de la jeunesse.
- Place of Publication:
- À Paris : Chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1712.
- Contents:
- La bonne métode d'écrire (p. 1-20 (1st group))
- Nouveavx exemplaires d'ecriture d'une beauté singuliere (leaves [1]-[16])
- Exemplaires d'ecriture italienne batarde de la plus belle maniere d'écrire (leaves [17]-[40])
- Les regles de l'ortografe conformes au bon usage (p. 1-162)
- Formulaire de petits actes, qui se sont ordinairement sous signatures privées (p. 163-188)
- Petit essai de lettres convenables à de jeunes gens (p. 189-212)
- L'aritmétique facile (p. 213-323)
- Table des parties du traité de l'Ecriture.
- La bonne metode d'ecrire.
- Les regles de l'ortografe.
- Formulaire de petits actes.
- L'aritmetique facile.
- Notes:
- Device on t.p.
- Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
- Engraved frontispiece port. of Blégny.
- The Nouveavx exemplaires d'ecriture and Exemplaires d'ecriture italienne batarde are entirely engraved. Each has separate divisional t.p. The t.p. to the Nouveavx exemplaires is in later state, with the engraver's name altered from Berey to Beroy.
- Signatures: a⁸, B⁸, A-E⁸, F-P⁴, Q-Bb⁸, C⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Several pages torn; book badly water-stained.
- Athenaeum copy: Conservation by the Florence Gould Foundation.
- Cited in:
- Becker, D.P. Practice of letters, 95.
- Bonacini, no.223
- Contains:
- Nouveaux exemplaires d'ecriture d'une beauté singuliere.
- Exemplaires d'ecriture italienne batarde de la plus belle maniere d'écrire.
- OCLC:
- 24979630
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