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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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Additional Authors
  • Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809.
  • Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827.
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
  • Bye and Law. prt
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
  • Gymnastics for children
  • Physical education for children
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. Publisher
Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811. Attributed name
Blake, William, 1757-1827. Attributed name
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Attributed name
Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808. Dedicatee
Bye and Law. Printer
Research Call Number
Pforz (Guts Muths, J. C. F. Gymnastik für die Jugend. ENG)
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