CIVILITÉ IN MANUSCRIPT WASTE LA SALLE, Jean-Baptiste, Saint.
Les règles de la bienséance et de la civilité chrétienne, divisées en deux parties.
Rare edition of La Salle’s pedagogical work, printed in civilité type and bound in printed and manuscript waste. The Règles of St Jean-Baptiste La Salle (1651–1719) first appeared in 1702 and, an immediate success, were reprinted innumerable times until well into the nineteenth century. Civility and courtesy are not seen by La Salle as mere social ornaments, but rather as manifestations of Christian virtues. This charming Rheims edition exploits, like several other courtesy books, the grace of the sixteenth-century civilité type, first designed and cut by Granjon in Antwerp in 1557.
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