Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich.

Estimate

2,000 - 2,500 GBP

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Description

Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt, ein Versuch den Muttern Anleitung zu Geben, ihre Kinder selbst zu unterrichten. Bern & Zurich: Heinrich Gessner, 1801

8vo (163 x 104mm.), engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, contemporary half sheep, light foxing, boards rubbed, slightly worn at edges

Provenance

Holterbach, inscription on endpaper

Literature

PMM 258

Catalogue Note

first edition of Pestalozzi's most famous work, `How Gertrude teaches her children', in which he expounds his principles of education, the most forward-looking of which was that education should develop a child, rather than train him like a dog. The portrait, here present, is often lacking.