![ANGELOV, Iu. K. Vspomogatel'noe sredstvo dlia uchashchikhsia Frantsuzskomu iazyku po metodie Zhakoto. [An Aid for the Study of the French Language by the Jacotot Method.] St. Petersburg: D. Kesnevil, 1852.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CKS/2012_CKS_06769_0007_000(angelov_iu_k_vspomogatelnoe_sredstvo_dlia_uchashchikhsia_frantsuzskomu052650).jpg?w=1)
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ANGELOV, Iu. K. Vspomogatel'noe sredstvo dlia uchashchikhsia Frantsuzskomu iazyku po metodie Zhakoto. [An Aid for the Study of the French Language by the Jacotot Method.] St. Petersburg: D. Kesnevil, 1852.
4° (254 x 168mm). (Without blanks as issued.) Contemporary Russian green leather, sides tooled in gilt and blind in a romantic style, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt edges, pink moiré silk doublures (light wear). Provenance: Alexander II of Russia (bookplate) -- Swann Galleries, New York (sold, 12 November 1992, lot 2).
FIRST EDITION. ALEXANDER II'S COPY IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Aesop's fables in parallel Russian and French translations, according to the experimental teaching method of educational theorist Joseph Jacotot. The method is based on the principle of 'intellectual emancipation': all people have an equal ability to learn, and intelligence is equal in all -- an idea that perhaps resonated with Alexander, the 'Liberator Tsar'. Although the binding is unsigned it is the work of one of St. Petersburg's most accomplished binders, with unusually fine gilt tooling. Complete with the supplemental booklet, Kratkoe ob'iasnenie, bound-in. RARE: not in WorldCat or Copac.
4° (254 x 168mm). (Without blanks as issued.) Contemporary Russian green leather, sides tooled in gilt and blind in a romantic style, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt edges, pink moiré silk doublures (light wear). Provenance: Alexander II of Russia (bookplate) -- Swann Galleries, New York (sold, 12 November 1992, lot 2).
FIRST EDITION. ALEXANDER II'S COPY IN A HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Aesop's fables in parallel Russian and French translations, according to the experimental teaching method of educational theorist Joseph Jacotot. The method is based on the principle of 'intellectual emancipation': all people have an equal ability to learn, and intelligence is equal in all -- an idea that perhaps resonated with Alexander, the 'Liberator Tsar'. Although the binding is unsigned it is the work of one of St. Petersburg's most accomplished binders, with unusually fine gilt tooling. Complete with the supplemental booklet, Kratkoe ob'iasnenie, bound-in. RARE: not in WorldCat or Copac.
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