DUMAS (Louis). The Library of the Children or the First Elements of the Letters. Containing the Sistème du Bureau tipographique. The new Latin ABC. The new French ABC. The essay of a practical rudiment of the Latin language. The general introduction to the French language. Different reading pieces on the first notions of arts and sciences, etc.,. For the use of Monseigneur le Dauphin and the august children of France. [First volume]. At Pierre Simon, Printer of the Parliament, rue de la Harpe à l'Hercule. In Paris. 1733. With approval and privilege of the King. [Sic]. [Followed by] La Bibliothèque des Enfans ou les Premiers Elémens des Lettres contentant le nouvel A, B, C, latin. For the use of Monseigneur le Dauphin and the august children of France. [Second volume]. [Same address and date]. La Bibliothèque des Enfans ou les Premiers Elémens des Lettres contentant le nouvel A, B, C, françois. For the use of Monseigneur le Dauphin and the august children of France. [Third volume]. [Same address and date], La Bibliothèque des Enfans ou les Premiers Elémens des Lettres contentant l'essai d'un rudiment pratique de la langue latine, et l'Introduction générale à la langue Françoise. For the use of Monseigneur le Dauphin and the august children of France. [Fourth volume]. At Pierre Witte's, rue Saint Jacques, near Saint-Yves, at the Ange Gardien. 1733. Fort in-4 (26 x 20 cm). VIII, 216 pp; XIX, (5), 96 pp; XX, 210 pp. (Figures 97-306), 16 pp. ; (2), VI, 124, 24 pp. (2) : brown speckled calf, spine with five ornamented bands, title-pieces, roulette on the edges, red speckled edges. (Binding of the period). Second and precious complete edition increased by three volumes, the last one being followed by the Introduction générale à la langue françoise, by Louis Dumas (Nîmes 1676-1744), inventor of the Bureau typographique (1732) and major actor of the educational reform movement of the beginning of Louis XV's reign. The second volume, which constituted the first edition, is perfectly identical to this one. The third volume includes, after the preliminary reflections, the table of lessons from the vowels or simple sounds, to the days of the week, the hours, etc. And the fourth, practices of indeclinables and declinables, conjugables, concordances, etc. Precious description of his method in order to facilitate its use, mainly for the royal children whom the pedagogue had to instruct. The remarkable title-frontispiece, engraved by Jean-Baptiste Guélard, is here on the double page. A very fine copy in contemporary binding. Provenance : M. Jacob, Villa Montmorency in Auteuil, with his ex-libris.