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A Summary Account of Prizes For Common Things Offered and Awarded by Miss Burdett Coutts at the Whitelands Training Insitution
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
1857
Hatchard : London
8.5" by 5.5"
[2], xxiv, 213pp
SUMMARY
A vanishingly scarce work from the Whitelands Training Institution, a curious insight into Victorian education. Inscribed by Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Publishers Original Binding,Signed,Very Scarce
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs0.75 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The second edition of this vanishingly scarce work.
Signed by Burdett-Coutts to the head of the half-title.
A detailed summary of the prizes offered and awarded at the Whitelands Training Institution. Including a list of the questions given at exams, with examples of the best answers which were subsequently awarded.
Questions given include what advice would you give to young girls as to the care of medicines in a sick-room?, and how would you teach that the possession or want of self-respect is betokened by dress, and that moral habits are influenced by dress?
This volume also includes recipes ideal of a sick person, advice on how to treat scarlet fever and measles, and hints on points of domestic economy.
Offering an insight into education for females in the Victorian era, when their education focused on housekeeping and the care for others.
Angela Burdett-Coutts was an influential figure in Victorian England, one of the wealthiest women in the country. She was a great philanthropist, spending the majority of her wealth on scholarships and endowments. With Charles Dickens she co-founded the Urania Cottage.
CONDITION
In the original publishers cloth binding. Externally, with some marks and discolouration to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Crack to the rear joint. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Pencil marks to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with light scattered spots and handling marks. Inscription to the half-title.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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