Author: Nightingale, Florence [1820 - 1910] - Contributor. Verney, Ruth Florence [1879 - 1968] - Former Owner
Title: ORGANIZATION Of NURSING. An Account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, Its Foundation, Progress, and Operation in Hospital, District, and Private Nursings. By a Member of the Committee of the Home & Training School.; With an Introduction, and Notes, by Florence Nightingale
Description: Liverpool / London: A. Holden, 48, Church Street / Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1865. 1st Edition (Bishop & Goldie 14). ASSOCIATION COPY. Original publisher's flexible bright blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to front cover (professionally rebacked). Pale yellow eps. 103, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece, lithograph of the Liverpool School. Plan of the School. Map of Districts, p. 103. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-3/8". General wear to binding. Two early ownership signatures to front pastedown, the first 1866, with Verny's underneath, dated Dec 26, 1903. Tipped into the ffep, a mss note entitled "Extracts from letter of Sir Harry Verney's", wherein he extolls the advantages of the Nightingale plan, vis-a-vis, the Liverpool School. A VG copy of an uncommon Nightingale publication. Ruth Florence Verney was Florence Nightingale's god-daughter, the Verney family being closely connected to Nightingale by work, and by the marriage of her sister, Parthenope, to Sir Harry Verney.

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