Ingenious method or French alphabet, syllabic. To learn to read in a short time. New edition. At Augustin Henault's, Printer-Bookshop, rue Saint-Rome, n° 7. In Toulouse. 1838. In-12 (17,8 x 11 cm). 96 pp. : paper covers illustrated with stylized woodcuts, sun in the center in a leaf frame, modern folder and slipcase. (Devauchelle workshop). Printed in Toulouse. Rooster tasting grapes on the title page with, on the reverse, a large woodcut in a naive style depicting a bird on the branch. Alphabets with the Cross, syllables, Sunday Prayer, psalms, Sunday Vespers (three vertical dots separate all the words, which themselves are separated into syllables), in these early texts. The Office of the Virgin Mary and The Perfect Man complete the work. Very well preserved in its original woodcut covers. Small lower corner slightly restored. Elegant slipcase by Devauchelle.