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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

Subjects

• Physical education for children
• Gymnastics 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)