Author: COTTON, ELIZABETH R. (LADY HOPE); PREFACE BY LIEUT.-GEN. SIR ARTHUR COTTON, R.E., K.C.S.I.
Title: Our Coffee-Room [Signed by Florence Nightingale]
Description: London, James Nisbet & Co. 1878, Eleventh Thousand. Embossed Blue Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Frontispiece Engraving. Hardcover, A very collectible copy, inscribed and signed in ink by Florence Nightingale to 'Miss Johnson' on the half-title page, dated Jan/78 (January 1878); Original flat brown endpapers separated at the front and rear gutters, with hinges strong and intact. Textblock slightly aged, but very clean and tight; Bound in blue cloth with gilt embossed titling, and characteristic bevel-edged boards, worn and scuffed at the corners and along the edges and spine tips; Former owner's signature on ffep verso; [On the recto of the rear free endpaper is an undated ink notation concerning the Coffee Public House Assoc. Grosvenor Square; President - Duke of Westminster / Chairman Hon. W.F. Cowper Temple]; Elizabeth Reid Coffin was one of Scotland's greatest social reformers and advocated total abstinence from alcohol. She founded the first Coffee-Room in 1869, where food and non-alcoholic drinks were served; Her friend and fellow activist Florence Nightingale established her own Coffee Room in her home village of Whatstandwell, Derbyshire, and distributed and signed copies of this book; Elizabeth Cotton became Lady Hope when she married British evangelist Sir James Hope in 1877; 247p. plus 16 pages of ads. Additional photos available upon request. From the collection of John Calder Pearson, ardent bibliophile, former member and one-time president of the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio, a celebrated literary society. Very Good+. Signed by Florence Nightingale.

Keywords: Tempereance Literature, Alcohol-Free Coffee House, British Coffee Houses, Florence Nightingale Signature, Books Signed by Florence Nightingale, Alocohol Abstinence, British Temperance Movement Frontispiece Engraving


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