Lot 258
Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, first edition, early issue, 1860.
Hammer Price: £500
Description
⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***
Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, first edition, early issue, without the notice "[The right of translation is reserved]" on title and textual errors uncorrected, with the publisher's printed adverts and not the plain yellow endpapers, front free endpaper, title and a few pp. at end detached, light spotting, original limp pebbled cloth, gilt, back strip defective, 8vo, 1860.
⁂ The earliest known copy, held in the Nurses' Home at St. Thomas's Hospital, bears an inscription in Nightingale's hand dated New Year's Day 1860. This copy does not carry "[The right of translation is reserved]" on the title page under the publisher's imprint and the endpapers are plain yellow. In February 1860 the book was reissued with advertisement endpapers and textual errors still uncorrected, but with "[The right of translation is reserved]" inserted on the title page (Bishop & Goldie p.16).
Description
⁂ Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***
Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, first edition, early issue, without the notice "[The right of translation is reserved]" on title and textual errors uncorrected, with the publisher's printed adverts and not the plain yellow endpapers, front free endpaper, title and a few pp. at end detached, light spotting, original limp pebbled cloth, gilt, back strip defective, 8vo, 1860.
⁂ The earliest known copy, held in the Nurses' Home at St. Thomas's Hospital, bears an inscription in Nightingale's hand dated New Year's Day 1860. This copy does not carry "[The right of translation is reserved]" on the title page under the publisher's imprint and the endpapers are plain yellow. In February 1860 the book was reissued with advertisement endpapers and textual errors still uncorrected, but with "[The right of translation is reserved]" inserted on the title page (Bishop & Goldie p.16).
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