Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'A.B.C. et à épeller aux enfans en les amusant par des figures agréables & propres à leur faire faire des progrès dans la lecture & l'écriture presque sans maître
An 18th-century French primer by Abraham Girardet, published in 1792, meant to teach children the alphabet, spelling, reading and writing through amusing figures. Its engraved plates are numbered grids of small framed scenes, each captioned with a French word for a character type or fable, such as the poet, the miser, the prodigal and the glutton. For a designer, the appeal is the orderly modular layout of labelled vignettes and the expressive, costumed gestures of each figure, which read clearly at small size.
