Progressive Education or, Considerations on the Course of Life. Translated from the French of Mme Necker de Saussure
(Necker, Albertine Adrienne de Saussure, 1766-1841).
Published in London by Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1839-1843. First English edition assumed. Complete 3 volumes set of this rare title, originally published in French. Bindings worn, with losses to the spines, one with near complete loss, both boards detached on volume 1. Quarter bound in leather with scuffed boards. Previous owner's name to the title page of volume 1 (Anne Bowdillon, 1849), small closed edge tear to the bottom edge. Blocks generally sound, so worth the cost of a rebind to full appreciate this scarce set which covers children's education from infancy onwards. Fair/Binding copy Albertine Adrienne Necker de Saussure was a Genevan and then Swiss writer and educationalist, and an early advocate of education for women. Reflecting her strongly religious orientation, the most important book of Necker de Saussure, L’Education progressive; ou, étude sur le cours de la vie, was a significant contribution to educational literature. The work was published in several volumes over the decade 1828–38; it was first translated into English (in part) in Boston (1835) and later (in full) in London (1839–43; 3 vol.). Other works include Notice sur la caractère et les écrits de Mme de Staël (1820; “A Review of the Character and the Writings of Mme de Staël”) and a French translation of August Wilhelm von Schlegel’s Über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (1809–11) as Cours de littérature dramatique, 3 vol. (1814).
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