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Gymnastics for youth : or A practical guide to healthful and amusing exercises for the use of schools. : An essay toward the necessary improvement of education, chiefly as it relates to the body
- Title
- Gymnastics for youth : or A practical guide to healthful and amusing exercises for the use of schools. : An essay toward the necessary improvement of education, chiefly as it relates to the body / freely translated from the German of C. G. Salzmann, master of the academy at Schnepfenthal, and author of Elements of morality. Illustrated with copper plates.
- Author
- Guts Muths, Johann Christoph Friedrich, 1759-1839.
- Publication
- London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-yard, by Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1800.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Guts Muths, J. C. F. Gymnastik für die Jugend. ENG) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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- Description
- xvi, 433 [i.e. 431], [1] p., 10 leaves of plates ill.; 22 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Practical guide to healthful and amusing exercises for the use of schools
- Subject
- Note
- Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴ O-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
- Pages [430-431] are misnumbered 432-433.
- Dedication: "To Dr. Beddoes ..."
- Statement of responsibility is erroneous; the translation is from the original German of J. C. F. Guts Muths.
- Translation sometimes inaccurately credited to Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Illustrations: Folding engraved frontispiece, illustrating figures 1-10. -- Nine additional plate engravings, including, "The leap in heights, with & without a pole"; "The leap in length, with & without a pole"; "Running, & leap-frog"; "Throwing & shooting at a mark"; "The different kinds of wrestling"; "Climbing"; "Preservation of equilibrium"; "Trundling a hoop &c."; and "Bathing & swimming." The plates were once, but are no longer, ascribed to William Blake (cf. A.G.B. Russell's Engravings of William Blake, no. 123).
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Indexed In (note)
- ESTC
- Call Number
- Pforz (Guts Muths, J. C. F. Gymnastik für die Jugend. ENG)
- OCLC
- 317614500
- Author
- Guts Muths, Johann Christoph Friedrich, 1759-1839.
- Title
- Gymnastics for youth : or A practical guide to healthful and amusing exercises for the use of schools. : An essay toward the necessary improvement of education, chiefly as it relates to the body / freely translated from the German of C. G. Salzmann, master of the academy at Schnepfenthal, and author of Elements of morality. Illustrated with copper plates.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-yard, by Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 1800.
- Indexed In:
- ESTC N30813
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer copy: Bound in half calf, rebacked, over marbled boards; with red and green morocco spine labels, and gilt spine-titling.
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- Added Author
- Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. PublisherSalzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811. Attributed nameBlake, William, 1757-1827. Attributed nameWollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Attributed nameBeddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808. DedicateeBye and Law. Printer
- Research Call Number
- Pforz (Guts Muths, J. C. F. Gymnastik für die Jugend. ENG)