12mo. 14516 pp., extensive collection, + 13 folding plates, + 55 steel engraved plates of which 2 are folding, contemporary half-calf, title gilt on spine, speckled outer edges, translated from the German & English by J.B.J. Breton, Paris & Amsterdam: J.E. Gabriel Dufour, An XII-XII (1804-1807).

Synopsis

RARE FASCINATING COMPLETE COLLECTION WITH MAGNIFICENT BINDING. COPAC lists only one copy comprising of two volumes only at Leeds University. Set in perfect condition. Joachim Heinrich Campe was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher. He was a major representative of philanthropy and the German Enlightenment. His publications ranged from alphabet books to a collection of both translated and his own travelogues and guidance or conduct books for boys and girls.
Campe is counted among the founding fathers of the modern genre of intentional or specific children’s and youth literature, along with the writers Christian Felix Weiße and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann. He created this series of works, which was supposed to be educational, pleasant and directed at a specific age group.