Elements of the Word and the Reading. Without address, place, or date. [France. ca. 1810]. Layered paper plate (60 x 46 cm), (56 x 32 cm at the tank), engraved in intaglio and colored. On a beautiful watermarked laid paper, rare engraved educational plate of 72 [71] colored vignettes. For each of them a phoneme, in three typographies, is associated with a word and its illustration. "According to a principle close to the Quadrille des enfants by Abbé Berthaud." [Notice of the National Museum of Education]. The letter I is always associated, K, Q, Y are not represented. The box of the phoneme PHT, associated with Phthisie is [of course] not illustrated. Extreme finesse and variety of engravings. Daddy, Mommy, everyday objects (and scientific ones: pneumatic bell, sphere), animals and small jobs. The watermark "Dambricourt frères, Hallines" with the letters HP in a shield was used during the first quarter of the 19th century. Perfectly preserved plate with two minimal marginal cracks.