This was really fun to find and, for someone like me obsessed with Froebel kindergarten, it reads like a wish list of one thing after another I am forever hoping to find, including all of the Froebel "Gifts": blocks and parquetry sets, ruled slates, sticks and rings for laying, papers for weaving and folding, perforated cards for yarn drawing, etc. Pages and pages detailing all of the different colors of varieties of paper available, and all of the different patterns for pricked sewing cards, plus geometric solids sets, measuring tools, color wheels, on and on. I know I tend to go on and on about kindergarten, but I am a true believer in it--as a philosophy of learning and also as a force that profoundly shaped the intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities of the modern era! And the Milton Bradley Company, based in Springfield, MA, was pivotal in popularizing the kindergarten movement in America.
9" x 5 3/4", 80 pages. Missing paper covers but otherwise in very good condition. Copies of this are fairly scarce, seemingly most often held in museum collections.
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