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1816 · réf. 21275 — Paris: Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie and the author on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert 1816. Contemporary gold-tooled grained green morocco sewn on 3 recessed cords but with the tooling dividing the spine into 5 fields each board with the large arms of the dedicatee Marie Thérèse de France Duchesse d'Angoulême daughter of King Louis XVI: a crowned double coat of arms each in an oval in a wide border of fleurs-de-lis and tulip-like flowers the dexter arms of her husband that normally used by the Duc de Berry but also by the seconde maison Capétienne d'Artois azure 3 fleurs-de-lis or with a bordure embattled gules and the sinister arms of her father Louis XVI matching that of the Kings of France azure 3 fleurs-de-lis or with no bordure gold-tooled spine with the author and title in the 2nd and volume number in the 3rd of 5 fields and further with decorated rolls and fleurs-de-lis gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins pink silk endleaves headbands in white and pink gilt edges. Large 12mo 17.5 x 10.5 cm. With 3 title-pages each in the same border made of 4 rules with circular decorations mitred at the corners a large folding engraved map of France in 1816 by Hérisson on heavy paper 3 astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 engraved plates a large folding hierarchical “tableau synoptique” of French grammar and numerous numerical tables and mathematical equations in the text. Set in roman and italic types each title-page with a few words in a French ronde upright script. 3 volumes. Very rare first and only edition of a compendious educational work intended for girls dedicated in the newly restored Bourbon monarchy to Marie Thérèse de France 1778-1851 Duchesse d'Angoulême and daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette the only heir directly descended from Louis XVI to survive the Revolution. The dedication itself appears in volume 1 1817 but is noted on all three title-pages so also 1816. The present copy is in a beautiful armorial morocco binding clearly intended as a dedication copy for Marie Thérèse with her arms on both boards of each volume. She had married her first cousin Louis Antoine d'Artois 1775-1844 Duc d'Angoulême in 1799 he was to be King of France for 20 minutes in 1830 when his father and he abdicated then pretender to the throne calling himself Louis XIX. She was nearly forty and childless when the book appeared soon after the 1814/15 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with her uncle as King Louis XVIII. Rather than impale the husband's and father's arms as the English did French ladies displayed them side by side: courtoisie. The book contains lessons in all subjects girls of good family should be taught. The first volume covers French grammar and syntax with separate courses for younger and older girls followed by a basic course in rhetoric. The second volume covers arithmetic and geography in single extensive courses. The third and last volume covers history and mythology again with separate courses for the younger and older girls both presented like a catechism. with questions and answers for the children to learn by heart. In fine condition with only a small tear in the folding table and occasional very minor foxing. Fine copy in a fine armorial dedication binding for the daughter of King Louis XVI in the restored Bourbon monarchy.l KVK & WorldCat 5 copies; Quérard III p. 245; not in Gumuchian; for the arms on the binding: Olivier Manuel armoriées Françaises 2553 fer no. 2 recorded on a different 1816 book. Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, [and] the author (on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert), unknown