Author: Stretton, Hesba [pseudonym of Smith, Sarah. 1832 - 1911]. Verney, Ruth Florence [1879 - 1968] - Former Owner. [Nightingale, Florence. 1820 - 1910]
Title: The FISHERS Of DERBY HAVEN
Description: London: The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row, 65 St. Paul's Churchyard and 164 Piccadilly, (n. d.). Ca 1889. Date surmised from an advert at rear. Red decorative cloth binding. Pictorial eps. 192, 16 pp. RTS adverts last 16 pages. Illustrated. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Quite worn & soiled binding, cocked. Verney's bookplate to front paste-down. Last page & rfep with significant stains. A Good copy only. 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. In this volume, to a preliminary blank, is noted in pencil, "Ruth from Aunt Florence" [we do not believe this to be in Nightingale's hand].

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