LIX (Theodore). I will know how to read. Methodical and amusing alphabet by a father. Work enriched with numerous engravings by Lix, printed in colors. Garnier frères, Libraires-Editeurs. 6, rue des Saints-Pères. Paris. [Around 1880]. Typography Charles Unsinger, 83, rue du Bac. Paris. Large in-4 (32,5 x 25,8 cm). 48 pp. publisher's red percaline boards, bevelled boards, gilt edges, a mother reading with her daughter and her son on the first board, framing decorations and central rosette stamped in black on the second. First edition, in percaline cardboard with bevelled boards, of this primer reissued several times thereafter with illustrations by Robert Sallès. Numerous vignettes and large compositions, all lithographed in colors, by the painter and draftsman Théodore Lix (1830-1897). Press illustrator, he collaborated to many periodicals: Le Charivari, L'Illustration, Le Monde illustré, Saint-Nicolas, etc. Alphabets and syllabaries precede the illustrated alphabet book with a large color lithograph per page captioned with a text defining the title word framed by the initial in upper and lower case (without the W). At the end of the book, six pages of bad examples not to be followed (and children severely punished), each page illustrated with three vignettes, each for a story. Copy well preserved. Minimal rubbing to the lower corners.