Bertuch, F(riedrich) J(ustin). Image book for children containing a pleasant collection of animals, plants, flowers, fruits, minerals, costumes and all kinds of other teaching objects from the realm of nature, arts and sciences ... accompanied by a brief scientific explanation, appropriate to the mind-forces of a child [and:] Porte-feuille des enfans. Part I and III. Together with 200 coloured copper plates with corresponding text sheet. 24.5 x 19 cm. Modern half leather or half leather d. Z. (impregnated and rubbed). Weimar, Industrie-Comptoir, 1798-1810. Goedecke IV 1, 679, 19. Rümann 33. Sea bass 180. Wayhead I, 131. Pressler 46. Gumuchian 611. Brugesmann-Evers 391 et seq. (detailed). LKJ I, 137 (detailed). – The parts I (third edition) and III (first edition) of the famous picture encyclopedia for children: "For a nursery, a picture book is just as essential and even more indispensable as the cradle, the doll, or the horse. Every father, every mother, every one of the children, knows this truth, and from Locke to Basedow, Campe and Salzmann, every reasonable teacher recommends that the earliest lessons of the child begin through the eye ... It must have beautiful and correctly drawn and not badly stinged copper, because nothing is more important than the child's eye, right from the beginning, only to get used to true representation of the objects, correct relations, impressions and terms ... and to beautiful forms and good taste" (plan, announcement and preliminary report of the work). The text and title sheets are bilingual in French and German. – Part I browned and brown-spotted, 4 of the plates with deposited cracks. In part III above all the text leaves slightly brownish. The numerous panels in beautiful color.