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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910)--The Queen's Colours, and other Sketches of a Soldier's Life. London: William Rider and Son, [1883]. Woodcut frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations, some full-page. 16-page publisher's catalogue bound in at the end. (Occasional light spotting.) Original cloth (lightly rubbed, spine darkened, a few marks on boards). Provenance: 'Herbert Grillage , from , Florence Nightingale , Feb 3/93 , And may we always fight , under our great , Commander's colours!' (presentation inscription on front free endpaper).
INSCRIBED BY NIGHTINGALE. The reference in Nightingale's inscription is to the story 'The Roll Call', where a young soldier is admonished by a veteran, and the roll call is used as an analogy for the day of judgement. Herbert Grillage was possibly a relative of Mrs Grillage, a former servant (cf. letter of 4 August 1886 to W. Square about the treatment of Mrs Grillage's eye, Florence Nightingale Museum, London, accession no. 0876).
INSCRIBED BY NIGHTINGALE. The reference in Nightingale's inscription is to the story 'The Roll Call', where a young soldier is admonished by a veteran, and the roll call is used as an analogy for the day of judgement. Herbert Grillage was possibly a relative of Mrs Grillage, a former servant (cf. letter of 4 August 1886 to W. Square about the treatment of Mrs Grillage's eye, Florence Nightingale Museum, London, accession no. 0876).
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