JACQUIER (M.). Méthode très aisée pour apprendre... Lot 20

JACQUIER (M.). Méthode très aisée pour apprendre l'orthographe par principes à ceux ou celles qui n'ont pas étudié le latin ; Et utile aux personnes qui ont la connaissance des Belles-Lettres. À Paris, J. Josse - Th. Le Gras - N. Pissot, 1726, in-8°, blue morocco, large compartmented decoration of straight or curved gilt fillets, dotted lines and gilt small irons on the boards, five-ribbed spine decorated with small irons, red morocco lining set with a large roulette, silver paper endpapers with floral embossed decoration, gilt edges (bound by Padeloup le Jeune Place Sorbonne in Paris). Collation: 1 f. title, 1 f. dedication, 1 f. Avis au lecteur, 1 f. Approbation & Privilège, 232 pp. ch. 1 to 232. ORIGINAL EDITION, rare. WorldCat lists only two copies, one in Tours, the second in Düsseldorf. A second edition was published two years later, followed by a Supplement in 1730. "Spell as you read... read as you speak. This is the innovative method proposed by the author in his Avis au lecteur. It's aimed at as many people as possible, regardless of gender or age, without having studied Latin. Little is known about this grammarian, who died in October 1753. Between 1741 and 1748, he published a Grammaire française, a Petit dictionnaire français, Le Coup d'oeil des dictionnaires français, and a Manière d'enseigner l'orthographe et la langue française. Brunot quotes him in his Histoire de la langue française. Copy signed by the author. Spectacular, fully gilded and lined binding, perfectly preserved, signed Padeloup le Jeune (1685-1758). His family owes its reputation to him. It is one of a handful of bindings with stippled decoration. Esmerian indicates that the material used (stippled irons) comes from the Atelier Rocolet. Only the lower silvered and embossed paper endpaper has been preserved. A hard-to-read storage mark R.III 6 (?) stamped on the first cover of the lining. Dimensions: 199 x 126 mm. Provenances: Cortland F. Bishop (Cat., 1948, no. 149), with his bookplate; P. Berès (Cat. 48, 1950, no. 169, reproduction); R. Gaston-Dreyfus (Cat., 1966, no. 87, reproduction, exp.: P. Berès); Esmerian (Cat. II, 1972, no. 47, reproduction), with his bookplate. Grente (G.), Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le dix-huitième siècle, A-K, p. 578; Brunot, Histoire de la langue française, VI, I, p. 928.