Wild Boy of Aveyron.- Itard (Jean Marc Gaspard) An Historical Account of the Discovery and Education of a Savage Man, or of the first developments, physical and moral, of the Young Savage caught in the woods near Aveyron, in the year 1798, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4pp. advertisements, some light foxing or light soiling, A3&4 with adhesion mark to margin causing light tearing of paper, faint library ink stamp and marking to title verso, Wigan Free Public Library blind-stamps to title and frontispiece, frontispiece with some light damp-staining to head and ink inscription to recto, attractive modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, 8vo, Richard Phillips, 1802.

⁂ First English edition of this important study, see also previous lot.

"A pupil of Pinel, Itard pioneered in the attempt to educate a young 'wild boy' who had lived since infancy entirely apart from human contact. In adapting the methods of teaching deaf-mutes to his extraordinary pupil, Itard created a new system of pedagogy which has profoundly influenced, modern educational methods." - Garrison-Morton.