1880 La Confiance en Dieu

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Translated from the original German by F.-C. Gerard.

A very scarce work.

From the 'Bibliothèque Morale de la Jeunesse' series from Rouen based publisher Megard. This was a collection of works of literature and history aimed at younger readers, beautifully bound in distinctive and highly decorative cartonnage bindings in order to attract the young.

This series was part of a broader movement in nineteenth-century France to provide children with literature that combined moral instruction with engaging storytelling.

Illustrated with a frontispiece.

First published in this series the year prior, this is thought by the University of Cambridge libraries to be a retitled edition of the 1857 moral and didactic children's novel 'Étienne Latour, or, Confidence in God', a work with themes of the importance of trust and faith in God.