Die Menschenerziehung, Die Erziehungs-, Unterrichts- Und Lehrkunst Angestrebt In Der Allgemeinen Deutschen Rziehungsanstalt Zu Keilhau; Dargestellt Von Dem Stifter, BegrüNder Und Vorsteher Derselben. Erster Band. Bis Zum Begonnen Knabenalter [All Published]. FrÖBel, Friedrich.

First edition of the author's "most important treatise" (Encyclopaedia Britannica), which laid the foundation for modern approaches to early years education. Fröbel was a student of fellow pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, working at his institute in Yverdon from 1808 to 1810. He opened his first school in Thuringia in 1816, where he put Pestalozzi's theories into practice; the present work, The Education of Man, is his philosophical reflection on the principles and methods he pursued there. Fröbel later opened an infant school in Blakenburg in 1837, originally as the "Child Nuture and Activity Institute", but which he soon renamed the "Kindergarten", reflecting his belief that children should be nurtured "like plants in a garden". Alongside Pestalozzi, Fröbel was one of the most influential education reformers of the 19th century; the two men gave their names to the Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus, founded in 1882, one of the first institutions in Germany to train early childhood teachers. Octavo (201 x 135 mm). Later 19th-century grey pebble-grained half cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red. Binding lightly rubbed, contents faintly foxed, unobtrusive pencil annotations to margins, minor loss to outer margin of p. 207/8 not affecting text. A very good copy.