Pibrac

1750 · 40737 — Troyes: Jean Garnier ca. 1750. 16mo 16 cm 6.29". 87 1 8 pp. <br><br>Uncommon edition: a popular widely used primer inspired by Erasmus's De civilitate morum puerilium here in an 18th-century French version "de nouveau corrigé & augmentée à la fin d'un très-beau Traité pour bien apprendre l'Ortographe." Sometimes attributed to Mathurin Cordier the work covers appropriate modes of conduct at church in school at the dining table etc.; also present are a multiplication table and the 126 "Quatrains" four-line instructive verse maxims written by Pibrac. Almost all of the text — which is decorated with ornamental capitals and headpieces — is set in => the famous typeface modelled after 16th-century cursive letters and nicknamed "caractères de civilité" in honor of the present work making the book pedagogically useful both as a guide to good manners and as a pattern for formal handwriting.<br>    While the various approbations and permissions are dated 1714 1735 and 1736 Jean Garnier did not succeed his father Pierre in the publishing business until the early 1750s — and the family members who followed Pierre including Jean's mother the Veuve Garnier; Jean himself; and his sons Jean-Antoine and Etienne had a documented habit of stretching royal permissions past their originally intended spans. Whatever year it was when Jean reprinted this textbook from Pierre's stock => both the original and this version are now scarce: WorldCat finds no institutional locations anywhere reporting holding the edition with Jean Garnier's imprint and only one holding each of the printings from Pierre Garnier and the Veuve Garnier.<br>    Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>    <br>    This ed. not in Brunet Graesse Gumuchian WorldCat. Later plain paper–covered light boards; spine and joints lightly worn. Some leaves trimmed closely occasionally touching first or last letters or headers; a few pages with minor staining. One page unevenly inked by printer with about a dozen words only faintly legible. => Overall an unusually clean fresh copy of this seldom-seen edition clearly untouched by youthful hands. Jean Garnier hardcover books