[Learning to read, educational plates]. No address, no place, no date. [France. ca. 1900]. (22 x 24 cm approx.). (49) printed and watercolored plates, modern protective folder and slipcase, charcoal gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Set of forty-nine educational plates intended for classroom walls. Some applied on a strong cardboard or blue paper sheet. A first series of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet, lowercase letters in cursive writing between two dotted lines and in print with, on the left, an illustration heightened by hand in watercolor - some signed H. F. And twenty-three plates of syllabary and the different sounds of the French language, also illustrated. Are figured objects or scenes of everyday life and animals. Some leaves are applied on a strong cardboard of re-use where one can see, written on the back, the names calligraphed with ink of various families of plants. Angular lacks, small cracks at the edge of the plates not applied on cardboard.