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Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knoweledge, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4 inches. First edition of this text (or the first American edition, revised). A bit of wear to the corners, otherwise a nice copy in the publisher's brown pebbled cloth binding.
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A Brief Memoir of Elizabeth Fry
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Literatura príslovnictví slovanského a nemeckého, ci predchudcové Fr. Lad. Celakovského v "Mudrosloví národu slovanského v príslovich.
by Hanus, Ignac Jan
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V Praze: Nákladem spisovatelovým, 1853. First Edition. xvi, 152 pages. A collection of German and Slavic proverbs. First edition (first printing). A fine set of folded and gathered pages. Never bound or sewn, as issued from the printer.
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Some Royalties and a Prime Minister: Portraits from Life
by Bibesco, Marthe
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Accounts of Edward, Prince of Wales; Empress Maria-Feodorowna, Sophie of Albania, Michael of Rumania, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith of England, and other European royalty written by a Romanian princess. This is one of Bibesco's scarcer books. First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the last text page-the method Appleton used to denote first printings). Spine faded, erased child's pencil scribbling on the front free endpapers, hinges starting, thus only a hardcover bound in purple cloth stamped in gild. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.
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Wigan Coal Pit-Brow Women [5 CDVs]
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Wigan and Liverpool, England, 1870. Ephemera. Near fine. Five carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by women anywhere in England. They typically used shovels and screens to do this work and adopted a distinctive uniform of thick trousers, an apron-like skirt, and light-colored blouses. While middle-class society scorned them and their work- in 1891, the Wigan Observer newspaper described them as "weird swarthy creatures, figures of women, half-clad in man's and half in women's attire, plunging here and there, as some bedlamish saturnalis"-the women in these pictures stand proud before the camera, posing with the tools of their trade. Unlike most CDVs of women at work from the 19th century, these images are not part of a series of regional "types", instead they were…
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