Slate Pictures in Six Parts

Boston: Prang & Co., 1863 First edition. These are the first two volumes in a set of six. OCLC records seven institutions with at least parts of the set: the Morgan Library, Library of Congress, Winterthur Museum, University of Florida, Cincinnati PL, Library Co. of Philadelphia, and Penn State. Not all of these institutions have full sets, and at least one of the libraries (LOC) holds a copy that lacks leaves. Publisher's green paper wrappers. . Two volumes, 4 x 6 . Black leaves illustrated throughout with line drawings in white. These drawings were meant to be copied onto a blackboard by students. Back covers with L. Prang & Co. ads. Some chipping and soiling to wrappers. Pencil markings on a couple pages in volume one. Otherwise clean throughout. A very good set of uncommon and fragile educational booklets. Copying drawings onto a blackboard was a common educational method at the time. The practice tested students' abstract thinking skills and their hand-eye coordination. Froebel, for example, believed that a student's ability to translate an image they saw into an image they could represent through art was crucial to mental development.