Lot 243
Nightingale, Florence
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Notes on nursing. London: Harrison, [1860]. First edition, ? second issue, with the words "The right of Translation is reserved" in square brackets on title page, but no advertisements on the endpapers, also with original price of two shillings written in pencil on verso of front free endpaper, 8vo, original black cloth, gilt title on upper cover; Nightingale, Florence Notes on nursing. London: Harrison, 1860. New edition, revised, original brown cloth (2)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: The earliest known copy has an inscription dated New Year's Day, 1860, in Florence Nightingale's hand, and is now at St. Thomas's Hospital. It is without advertisements, but also without the words "The right of translation is rserved" on the title-page and may well be a proof copy. The next datable copies are in the Wellcome Library with inscriptions of February, 1860, but both have the advertisements. Sometime during February 1860, therefore, these advertisements were inserted, and as this copy is without them it must be one of the earliest issued, in January 1860.