1776 Magasin des Enfans. The Young Ladies Magazine: or, Polite Tutoress.

First edition. A fascinating little magazine from the Georgian era created by Madam Leprince de Beaumont, a French moral educator and writer who is most well known for adapting Beauty and the Beast into its most popular form. This particular publication was created with the sole purpose of ensuring that teenage girls and young women developed a strict moral code of conduct. It corrects improper behavior and teaches polite manners, thinking, and speech accorting to distinct personalities, and does so in the form of a dialogue between a governess and her students.

In good plus condition with a later replacement title label, bumped corners, an ink ownership inscription to the front and rear prelims, pencil ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, some pages darkened at the edges with light foxing, a couple of pages chipped at the corners. Generally firmly bound with clean pages. Bound in brown leather with simple aforementioned title label. Pocket size, 13.5 x 8 cm. Pp. [2], xxii, 163.