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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not. London: Harrison, [1860]. 8° (211 x 135mm). Letterpress table. Late 19th-/early 20th-century crushed half morocco by J. & E. Bumpus Ltd, the spine divided into 6 compartments and titled in gilt in 2, top edge gilt, original gilt pebble-grain black cloth covers laid down and bound in at the end. Provenance: A. Fenner Nov. 1.st 1860 (inscription on title); Sophie Hall-Walker (engraved bookplate dated 1901). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with '[The right of Translation is reserved]' on the title, and corrections on pp.20 (variant '&c.?'), 65, and 73 only). Bishop and Goldie 4(i); Eimas 1884; Garrison & Morton 1612; Norman 1602; Waller 6872 (?misdated '[1858]').
F. NIGHTINGALE. Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed female correspondent, [The Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen] 1 Upper Harley Street, 11 April 1854, 4 pages, 12° on a bifolium (light browning on first and last pages, traces of adhesive on final page) loosely inserted in a wallet on the upper pastedown of Notes on Nursing. Regretting that she cannot offer the correspondent a position (presumably at The Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen, where Nightingale had taken her first administrative position as Superintendent on 12 August 1853), as 'I may be able to engage a permanent Nurse almost immediately', and hoping that the correspondent will not refuse other work that may arise on Nightingale's account. However, Nightingale promises that, 'should I be disengaged & you be disengaged between this & June, I will gladly write to you & secure your services temporarily'.
F. NIGHTINGALE. Autograph letter signed to G. Hammond, Old Burlington Street, 16 December 1860, 3 pages, 8° on a bifolium (small split in centre fold) affixed to a larger leaf. A request for Hammond to send a packet to the Queen of Holland, declaring that 'it is in the highest degree improbable that I shall have any more such Royal behests'. The packet almost certainly contained a copy of Notes on Nursing, published earlier the year.
FIRST EDITION OF NIGHTINGALE'S CELEBRATED WORK, WITH A LETTER WRITTEN WHILST IN HER FIRST SENIOR NURSING POST. The administrative experience that Nightingale gained at the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen, in the 14 months between her appointment as Superintendent in 1853 and her departure for the Crimea in October 1854, coupled with her previous training and independent investigations into nursing, enabled her to transform the provision of nursing to the army in the Crimea, which culminated in the reduction of hospital mortality rates from 42 to 2 This scientific and methodical approach to nursing found its most popular and influential expression in Notes on Nursing: as Eimas notes, 'this no-nonsense book is not only a call for the establishment of training of nurses; it offers the most practical advice on the care of patients'. (3)
F. NIGHTINGALE. Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed female correspondent, [The Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen] 1 Upper Harley Street, 11 April 1854, 4 pages, 12° on a bifolium (light browning on first and last pages, traces of adhesive on final page) loosely inserted in a wallet on the upper pastedown of Notes on Nursing. Regretting that she cannot offer the correspondent a position (presumably at The Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen, where Nightingale had taken her first administrative position as Superintendent on 12 August 1853), as 'I may be able to engage a permanent Nurse almost immediately', and hoping that the correspondent will not refuse other work that may arise on Nightingale's account. However, Nightingale promises that, 'should I be disengaged & you be disengaged between this & June, I will gladly write to you & secure your services temporarily'.
F. NIGHTINGALE. Autograph letter signed to G. Hammond, Old Burlington Street, 16 December 1860, 3 pages, 8° on a bifolium (small split in centre fold) affixed to a larger leaf. A request for Hammond to send a packet to the Queen of Holland, declaring that 'it is in the highest degree improbable that I shall have any more such Royal behests'. The packet almost certainly contained a copy of Notes on Nursing, published earlier the year.
FIRST EDITION OF NIGHTINGALE'S CELEBRATED WORK, WITH A LETTER WRITTEN WHILST IN HER FIRST SENIOR NURSING POST. The administrative experience that Nightingale gained at the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen, in the 14 months between her appointment as Superintendent in 1853 and her departure for the Crimea in October 1854, coupled with her previous training and independent investigations into nursing, enabled her to transform the provision of nursing to the army in the Crimea, which culminated in the reduction of hospital mortality rates from 42 to 2 This scientific and methodical approach to nursing found its most popular and influential expression in Notes on Nursing: as Eimas notes, 'this no-nonsense book is not only a call for the establishment of training of nurses; it offers the most practical advice on the care of patients'. (3)
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