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Author: Swildens, Johan Hendrik.
Title: Vaderlandsch A-B boek, voor de Nederlandsche jeugd & Eerste beginsels van het cyfferen en van alle kunsten en handwerken & Spel- en lees-oefeningen.
Impressum: Amsterdam: W. Holtrop, 1781. 1st edition.
Subject(s): Education, Emblem Book, A-B Book.
Dimensions ca. 11 x 18 cm. (ca. 4.3 x 7.1 inch). 12mo.
Collation: [xxxiv], 58, [ii] pp.
An engraved title page, full-page illustration with alphabets, 27 half-page engravings and a further 4 full-page engravings. Engraved by: Brasser, L.; Meer Jr., N. van der; Bogerts, C.; Brouwer, C.; Bakker, B. de; Condet, J.. After: Wagenaar den Jongen, P.
Bibliography: Waller 1639; Buijnsters BNK 38.
This books was published and used in a time when the Netherlands was in economic and moral decline. The author hoped to instill patriotic duty and accomplish a re-orientation of society's moral stance. To that end, the alphabet is illustrated with more or less ideologically chosen keyword, that was accompanied by an illustration, a two-line poem and a prose piece. This way, the glory of the Enlightenment was communicated to the young mind, page after page. As opposed to the earlier Haneboek (another educational work), the Vaderlandsch A-B boek was mostly devoid of Biblical matter. Alhtough the texts themselves might seem crudely political to the modern eye, one must bear in mind that this trend-setting schoolbook tried to break through odl values. For a thorough essay on Dutch A.B.C. books see Ter Linden, De Vries & Welsink: "A is een Aapje" (Amsterdam, 1995).
Half cloth with marbled boards.
Cover condition: Good: ex-library (ticket to front and tail of the spine, the ticket to the spine taped over), spine with a small split, edges rubbed.
Inside condition: Very good: rubber stamp to the verso of the title, and on the final page.
Biographies: Jan Hendrik Swildens (Voerendaal 1745 - Amsterdam 1809) was a Dutch professor of law in Franeker. He was also a philosopher of the Enlightenment, who had a special interest in educational problems. His ideas on education are in part assimilated into the 1806 Education Act. Other important works by Swildens are: Bardietjes (1779 - unrhymed lyrical poetry) and Godsdienstig staatsboek (1803).
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Location: ZL3a
SKU: TPC 30365.1
Section: ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
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