8vo. [4], 284pp, [2]. With a half-title. Later brown paper-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt Rubbed, surface loss to boards, joints starting, paper shelf-label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Swansea Training College to FEP, scattered spotting.

The sole edition of a French translation of Louisa Gurney Hoare's (1784-1836) remarkably successful Hints for the improvement of early education and nursery discipline (1819); seemingly the only published work of Mathilde de Larive Dupa, of whom little is known.

Hoare's first published and best-known work, Hints was a tremendous success; editions appeared both in Britain and the United States for more than eighty years after its first publication.