Author: CHARLOTTE DE ROTHSCHILD
Title: Addresses to Young Children - Originally Delivered in the Girls Free School Bell Lane - ORIGINAL EDITION - SIGNED NOTE TIPPED IN -
Description: London, Wertheimer & Co. 1859, First Edition. Hard Cover. 274 pages, text in English. Addresses to Young Children - Originally Delivered in the Girls Free School Bell lane by Charlotte de Rothschild. The real and very rare first edition from 1859. in a fine, nearly as new condition, only little shelfwear on the cover. Library edition from the Bibliothek des Rabbinerseminars and allso from the Hirsch Hildesheimer Bibliothek, according to their ex-libris. "a collection of sermons and writings on ethics. Published in 1859, the 31 chapters cover the significance of religious holidays including Passover, Pentecost, and the Day of Atonement, as well as ethical/moral topics like pride and forgiveness. Rothschild begins most essays with the warm salutation "My dear children" and explains in the preface that her goal in publishing this volume is to "fill young minds with bright pictures of goodness and happiness.[rather] than to appall the imagination of children by shadowing forth, for their instruction and warning, those gloomy realities of degradation still unknown to them and from which, under God's blessing, and by faithful adherence to the precepts of this sacred volume, they may always be mercifully kept aloof" (iv-v). Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (1819-1884), of the Rothschild banking family in Naples, France, married her cousin, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, in 1836. The "never to be forgotten Baroness" was a prominent socialite and also extremely active in politics and philanthropy. She founded several charities including the Invalid's Kitchen at Bishopsgate and the Home for Aged Incurables. Her social circle included many high profile figures, from Benjamin Disraeli to the editor of The Times, John Delane. She was best known, however, for her work at the Jews' Free School, and the establishment of the "Evelina Prizes" (named after her daughter who died in childbirth in 1866) in Jewish elementary schools in London." According to its stamps this book comes from the the Bibliothek des Rabbinerseminars for orthodox Jews in Berlin and allso from the Hirsch Hildesheimer Bibliothek, True First Edition; original binding in gold stamped green leather. Dedication tipped in and SIGNED BY CHARLOTTE DE ROTHSCHILD: "Sr. Wohlgeboren dem Herrn Ledner (?) hochachtungsvoll dargebracht von Ch Rothschild" Size: 192 x 123 Mm. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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