Engraved frontis. & ten engraved plates (one folding). xviii, [18], 663, [1] pp. (subscribers’ list misbound at end). Small thick 8vo, cont. half-calf & marbled boards (spine a bit rubbed, occasional unimportant dampstaining), pink & green pigskin lettering pieces on spine. Schnepfenthal: im Verlage der Buchhandlung der Erziehungsanstalt, 1793.

First edition of the author’s first and best-known work; it is a “great classic that formed the basis of modern physical education…the first manual published by a practical physical educator…Ch. 6 to 15 are devoted to different physical exercises: high jumping, pole vaulting, jumping across a ditch; throwing a wooden discus, archery; running, skipping rope; wrestling; walking on... More