Recueil de Poesies a L'usage de la Jeunesse Americaine by Mlle. Camille de Janon - 1882

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1882. Hardcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6 3/4; pp. [7], vi-viii, [1], 2-186, [2]; brick-red cloth over boards; beautiful embossed gilt swan to front cover; gilt title to spine; minor rubbing to tips of spine and corners; some foxing to first free page only, else clean; previous owner's bookplate to front cover verso and signature to title page; overall in very good to near fine edition."Collection of Poetry for Use by American Youth" was an anthology of poems by French masters including Victor Hugo, Lafontaine, and Auguste Coupey - published by the French Director of a school in New York. Camille de Janon ran the "Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies and Children" at 10 Gramercy Park in Manhattan in the late 1800s. At the time, the Gramercy neighborhood had already begun establishing itself as a hotbed of artistic activity and an area of great progressive schools.The books was published by Camille de Janon in order to teach her pupils appreciation for French poetry as well as to strengthen their mastery of the language.Quite uncommon, especially in such condition with only one other copy in the trade.