Antoine DU SAIX. Lesperon de discipline pour inciter les humains aux bõnes lettres : stimuler a doctrine animer a sciēce inviter a touttes bõnes œuvres Vertueuses et moralles par consequēt pour les faire coheritiers de Jesuchrist expressemēt les nobles et genereux Lourdement forge ｸ rudemēt lime - La Secoude partie de Lesperon de discipline [...] 2 parts in one volume in-8, brown basane cold-stamped with juxtaposed rectangular architectural motifs covering the boards, spine with 3 nerves (Period binding). Bechtel, 252/D-435 // Brunet, II-919 // Rothschild, I-515 // USTC, 11067. I. (122f.) / a-b4, c6, d-q8, r4 // II. (104 f.) / A-N8 / 34 lines, gothic car / 129 x 193 mm. First edition of this treatise on education and discipline written by a perfect representative of the cultured man of his time. Born in Bourg-en-Bresse in 1504 or 1505 (died in 1579), Antoine Du Saix was a tutor and chaplain to the Duke of Savoy, before being appointed canon of the church of Bourg in 1541. A man of the cloth, a good diplomat and a fine scholar, he made friends with the distinguished minds of his time and also dabbled in poetry. Lesperon de discipline is his most important work. Containing more than ten thousand verses, it is a kind of encyclopaedic treatise and a complete system of education that aims to point out everything that can promote the growth of beautiful children (Bechtel). It covers a wide range of subjects, starting with the benefits of theology, respect for the law, a love of literature... but also instruction for fathers on how to procreate, feed and properly educate their children, how to breastfeed women, that children should not be overly delicately fed or sumptuously dressed, that they should not drink wine, that the correction of children should be temperate rather than harsh, whether children should be taught in private homes or sent to public schools... In short, a treatise on education that is still relevant today. Each part contains a title in red and black with the shield of Savoy. All the pages of text are framed with rectangular woodcuts with variations, sometimes bearing the author's name. These frames, in the taste of Geoffroy Tory, sometimes also bear the name of Girardières, a noble family from Bresse, which is perhaps the name of the engraver, as suggested in the Rothschild notice. A fine copy in its original binding. Binding previously restored, small loss to one nerve, corners worn. Marginal stains on 2 leaves and wetness in the lower margin of 9 leaves.