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Human Animals.

1915réf. 188802London: William Rider & Son. Ltd. 1915. First edition. An appealing collection exploring beliefs regarding human transformation into animals from "the point of view of folklore and occultism" - tales of "wer-wolves" and "wer-foxes" witches and their familiars animal dances human serpents phantom cats and cocks. The author was herself a suitably studious if somewhat quirky character. A wartime production uncommon in such sharp condition. For its date a typically well-produced Rider publication a serious and well-researched enquiry into the uncanny. Florence Hamel 1870-1957 began her career as an author of popular biographies in the main of prominent French women Émilie du Châtelet Agnès Sorel Dauphines of France Fair Women at Fontainebleau but also of La Fontaine and Lady Hester Stanhope. She later diversified writing a number of novels including the supernaturally themed Tiger-Wolves The Luminous Pearl and Trust to Boyd. In 1912 she founded Grafton & Co. which became the leading publishers of bibliographical and librarianship textbooks and of the trade journal Library World which she edited until her death; in 1919 an antiquarian department was added under the notable if slightly disreputable bibliographer R. A. Peddie. Bookseller Robin Waterfield offers colourful reminiscence of the place "I applied and got the job and absolutely loved the work. The proprietor was a South African called Fanny Hamel who wore a red wig. Somehow Fanny had entered into a liaison with Mr R. A. Peddie who was my boss at Grafton's. Peddie was a most distinguished bibliographer but had been dismissed from his post as librarian of St Bride's Printing Library for irregularity of attendance and drunkenness. There was always a large bottle of whisky under the counter to 'encourage' librarians" Markham. Octavo. Original greyish yellow pictorial cloth lettered in black to spine and to the front cover with image of a werewolf in black against a brilliant blue mountain range. Spine a touch tanned light rubbing of the cover design; free endpapers slightly browned light foxing front back and fore-edge pale toning to the text; overall solid square and clean a very good copy. Andrew Block A Short History of the Principal London Antiquarian Booksellers and Book-Auctioneers 1933; Frank Hamel obituary The Library World 58 4 April 1957; Sarah Markham In Conversation on-line. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni875,00 £GB≈ 1 041,32 €

STRACHEY, Ray; [NIGHTINGALE, Florence]:Biblio.com

THE CAUSE: A Short History of The Women's Movement in Great Britain.

réf. 23591London: G. Bell and Sons. 1928. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles the the spine in dustwrapper. Containing "Cassandra" a previously unpublished essay on the position of women in society by Florence Nightingale Appendix. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates of paintings drawings and photographs.An excellent near fine copy the binding square and firm the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents with very light spotting to the prelims are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and panel edges and with a clean closed score without loss to the bottom edge of the lower panel. An attractive example in original dustwrapper of Ray Strachey's "best-known and most successful book" ODNB uncommon thus. An in-depth history of the women's movement collected and written by a woman who was instrumental in much of the movement itself. Strachey came from a liberal artistic family which had close ties with the Bloomsbury group. She campaigned and wrote extensively on women's suffrage and later stood as an independent for Brentford and Chiswick for three general elections before becoming the parliamentary secretary for the UK's first female MP Nancy Astor and then the head of the Women's Employment Federation. Her papers are held at The Women's Library at the London School of Economics. "While acknowledging in a limited way the importance of the militants the book established a version of the suffrage movement that endorsed the views and celebrated the role of Millicent Fawcett and the NUWSS" ODNB. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: G. Bell and Sons. 1928 hardcover

Lucius Books · Royaume-Uni750,00 £GB≈ 892,56 €

POVERTY — HOMELESSNESS — FLORENCEBiblio.com

Regolamento della Pia Casa di Lavoro di Firenze

1818réf. 4414Florence: presso Niccolò Carli 1818. 8vo 193 x 125 mm. 45 3 bl.; 37 1 bl. pp. Letterpress tables. The second part is an Appendix separately paginated with half-title and approbation at end dated 1818. A few small spots to title and last few pages. Modern half linen and marbled boards original rear wrapper bound in. Only Edition of the rules for the main Florentine workhouse for the destitute mainly children established by Napoleon in 1812 to honor the birth of his son the King of Rome on the site of two former monasteries in the Florentine suburb of Montedomini. The architect Giuseppe del Rosso combined the two monastic edifices creating one main building in a neoclassical style and a complex of six smaller buildings for workshops etc. The Pia Casa di Montedomini as it came to be known was not only a poorhouse but was a center for poor relief generally. The various categories of candidates for aid are set forth in the introduction: children or adults who were taken in by Montedomini or by other “pious establishments” in the city as permanent residents known as Reclusi; those who were given work during the day and who returned to their families at the end of the day; those who were given work to carry out at home; and those few who were granted financial help. The Reclusi were divided by age: children under 3 went to the Spedale degli Innocenti those aged 3 to 10 and 10 to 15 to two different orphanages and those who were disabled or too old to work to another hospice Spedale di Bonifazio. Thus families were broken up: this is acknowledged in the text. Blank sample forms are provided for the admission of each category. Most of the rules are devoted to the main Reclusi aged 15 and up. The first chapter outlines admissions procedures; chapters 2 and 3 describe their general living conditions and daily routines and the following chapters address details of work food clothing and bedding all paid for through the inhabitants’ labor. Not surprisingly given the Napoleonic inspiration the Reclusi were organized in quasi-military “brigades” divided by sex and type of work. The brigades were led by the most compliant and hard-working individuals male “Caporali” and female “Maestre” who wore differently colored uniforms from the others. Every moment of the day was strictly regimented and other than eating and sleeping there was no time for anything other than work except for two hours of recreation on the occasional special feast day when only selected individuals were allowed to leave the Casa in strictly controlled groups. The daily life of these children and young adults who were imprisoned “for their own good” is hard to fathom for a modern reader: they rose at 6 or 6:30 prayed worked until noon finally were allowed to eat and then went back to work until 11 or 11:30 pm. Most of the work seems to have involved sewing or needlework; some worked for tailors or other textile workers. Dinner was followed by prayers and bedtime silence was imposed at 1 am. Meals were spartan: the rations of each ingredient are prescribed down to the ounce. Lunch was 2 ounces of soup 10 ounces of bread and 6 ounces of meat or a comparable quantity of vegetables. Dinner was bread and vegetables. One suspects that many barely survived in these conditions. Other chapters and the Appendix are devoted to the administration of the Casa accounting and record-keeping work assignments and payment and relations with extra-institutional employers. I locate no copies in American libraries. R. Uccelli Contributo alla Bibliografia della ToscanaC 1922 2575. presso Niccolò Carli unknown