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A prize winning new method of education of blind born people -In a cathedral binding-
Essai sur l'état physique, moral et intellectuel des aveugles-nés avec un nouveau plan pour l'amélioration de leur condition sociale.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1837. 8vo (213 x 127 mm). XXIV, 221, [1 blank] pages.
Green calf, blind and gold tooled. On the cover a fillet border within this a large blindstamped plate "à la cathedrale". Spine with 4 artificial raised bands and gold and blind tooled. Board edges and turn ins gold tooled. Marbled end leaves. Green ribbon marker, Edges gilt. In this study, which won a prize of 6000 fr from the Académie Française in 1837, he explains a new method of education for blind born people to give them a better social position. In the explanation for the prize it says: "La véritable nouveauté de ce livre, c?est que l?auteur, en perfectionnant l?éducation spéciale des Aveugles-nés, c?est-à-dire, l?art de substituer un sens à l?autre, veut en même temps leur donner, dans une proportion habile, l?éducation commune, de telle sorte que ces hommes soient rendus à la société, en même temps qu?ils sont secourus par elle, et que, dans les sciences, dans les arts, les métiers, ils puissent devenir tous laborieux et utiles, comme quelques-uns ont été grands et sublimes."
Pierre-Armand Dufau (1795 - 1877), was the director of the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (today the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles ? the pioneering French school for the blind) between 1840 and 1855. Dufau was a teacher at the school for 25 years, first under Guillié and, after 1821, Alexandre-René Pignier. One controversial change was Dufau?s opposition to the use of the writing method invented by Louis Braille. While Pignier was director, Louis Braille had developed his method of writing with raised dots for blind people; the method was very popular with the students at the school. Dufau suppressed its use in 1840, except for musical notation, and reintroduced raised letters for books used in the school.
-Provenance: Red oval stamp on the title page with a kings crown and the initials G.K.P.
-Condition: Joints and board edge rubbed; Spine a bit discoloured; Else a fine example of a cathedral binding.
Green calf, blind and gold tooled. On the cover a fillet border within this a large blindstamped plate "à la cathedrale". Spine with 4 artificial raised bands and gold and blind tooled. Board edges and turn ins gold tooled. Marbled end leaves. Green ribbon marker, Edges gilt. In this study, which won a prize of 6000 fr from the Académie Française in 1837, he explains a new method of education for blind born people to give them a better social position. In the explanation for the prize it says: "La véritable nouveauté de ce livre, c?est que l?auteur, en perfectionnant l?éducation spéciale des Aveugles-nés, c?est-à-dire, l?art de substituer un sens à l?autre, veut en même temps leur donner, dans une proportion habile, l?éducation commune, de telle sorte que ces hommes soient rendus à la société, en même temps qu?ils sont secourus par elle, et que, dans les sciences, dans les arts, les métiers, ils puissent devenir tous laborieux et utiles, comme quelques-uns ont été grands et sublimes."
Pierre-Armand Dufau (1795 - 1877), was the director of the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (today the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles ? the pioneering French school for the blind) between 1840 and 1855. Dufau was a teacher at the school for 25 years, first under Guillié and, after 1821, Alexandre-René Pignier. One controversial change was Dufau?s opposition to the use of the writing method invented by Louis Braille. While Pignier was director, Louis Braille had developed his method of writing with raised dots for blind people; the method was very popular with the students at the school. Dufau suppressed its use in 1840, except for musical notation, and reintroduced raised letters for books used in the school.
-Provenance: Red oval stamp on the title page with a kings crown and the initials G.K.P.
-Condition: Joints and board edge rubbed; Spine a bit discoloured; Else a fine example of a cathedral binding.