L'Ecole Des Moeurs by M Blanchard, French, Two Volumes

L'Ecole Des Moeurs ou Reflexions Morales et Historiques sur les Maximes de la Sagesse by M Blanchard. Nouvelle Edition. Volumes 1 & 2. Published in a cartonnage romantique style by A Mame et Cie, Tours. Copyright 1845. {Title: The School of Morals, or Moral and Historical Reflections on the Maxims of Wisdom}. The covers are dark navy with heavy relief gilt decoration. There is paper and under-board exposed on the upper corner and upper backstrip of volume 1. There is light shelf-wear and some light paper-loss on the backstrip of volume 2. There are small store stickers in the corner of the endpages. There is a frontispiece in each volume. There are areas of moderate to heavy foxing in each volume, with heavy foxing in the front and very end. 263 + 279 pages. Size: 7 1/8". 

M Blanchard was a French Catholic priest, Jean-Baptiste Blanchard (1731–1797), a writer whose educational and moral works were published and republished. This book L'École des mœurs first appeared in the 18th century, was considered important and reissued into the 19th century.