Essai sur l'©♭ducation des aveugles, ou, Expos©♭ de diff©♭rens moyens, v©♭rifi©♭s par l'exp©♭rience, pour les mettre en ©♭tat de lire, ©  l'aide du tact, d'imprimer des livres dans lesquels ils puissent prendre des connoissances de langues, d'histoire, de g©♭ographie, de musique, &c., d'ex©♭cuter diff©♭rens travaux relatifs aux m©♭tiers, &c. ...
By: par M. Ha©ơy
Contributors: Institution nationale des jeunes aveugles (France)
Publisher: Imprim©♭ par les enfans-aveugles, sous la direction de M. Clousier, imprimeur du Roi; & se vend, ©  leur seul b©♭n©♭fice, en leur maison d'©♭ducation ...
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Education of Visually Disabled
Notes: The "Essai," p. [1]-111, is printed on one side of leaf only with the blank sides pasted together, in an embossed italic typeface for the blind devised by the author.

Slip attached to frontispiece shows a sample of the embossed type without ink.

Errata: penultimate leaf of prelims.

First printed book intended to be read by the blind.

GM 5833.

Norman 1023.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Christie's (N.Y.) Note: Binding: Contemp. French mottled sheep, spine gilt. From the library of Haskell F. Norman (1915-96), with his book label. Lot 513 in the Christie's (N.Y.) sale of his collection, pt. 2, 15-16 June 1998