Novyĭ sposob, ili, Novi︠e︡ĭshai︠a︡ azbuka dli︠a︡ nauchenīi︠a︡ di︠e︡teĭ po pravilam grammaticheskim rossīĭskomu i frant︠s︡uzskomu chtenīi︠u︡, pisʹmu, ariḟmetiki︠e︡, geografīi, risovanīi︠u︡ i notnomu pi︠e︡nīi︠u︡
Subtitle: razdi︠e︡lennai︠a︡ na tri klassa, s prīobshchenīem mnogikh nravouchitelʹnykh basen, s figurami, i s drugimi poleznymi dli︠a︡ di︠e︡teĭ nastavlenīi︠a︡mi
By: sobrannai︠a︡ A. Ri︠e︡shetnikovym
Contributors: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: V Universitetskoĭ tipografīi u V. Okorokova
Published: 1792
Place of publication: Moskva
Language: rus
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: French Fables; Early works to 1800; Russian language; Translations into Russian; Alphabet; Readers; French language
Other titles: Novi︠e︡ĭshai︠a︡ azbuka dli︠a︡ nauchenīi︠a︡ di︠e︡teĭ po pravilam grammaticheskim rossīĭskomu i frant︠s︡uzskomu chtenīi︠u︡
Notes: Part 1 of a proposed 3-part work. "Klass 2." published in 1792 under title: Nachal'nai︠a︡ pravila arifmetiki, i Kratkoe rukovodstvo k geografii, v polʹzu rossiĭskago i︠u︡noshestva. Part 3 never published. Cf. Svodnyĭ kat.

"Nachalʹnoe rukovodstvo k rossīiskomu i frant︠s︡uzskomu chistopisanīi︠u︡," numbered as p. 113-122, has added t.p. dated 1792. Engraved on [10] leaves, one side of leaf only.

Signatures: (Cyrillic) A,B,V,G,D,E,Zh,Z,I,Ī⁸ K⁶.

Illustration with cartouche and rhyming caption facing p. [133], the beginning of the section of fables, is identical to frontispiece in Ri︠e︡shetnikov's 1788 edition of Basni v stikhakh i prozi︠e︡.

Vignettes mounted at heads of some sections and at head of each fable.

LC copy has Yudin Collection bookplates but no earlier marks of ownership. May or may not have been part of the library of G.V. Yudin.

Sopikov 11248

Svodnyĭ kat. russkoi knigi 18. veka, 5966

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Text in Russian and French. Fables have parallel text printed in columns in Russian and French.