Notes on Nursing. What it is, and what it is not. New edition, revised and enlarged.
Nightingale, Florence
Published by London: Harrison, 1860
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Octavo: xv, [1], 221, [3]pp. Good copy in original cloth, rebacked retaining original end-papers. Second and definitive edition, almost three times larger than the much more common first edition. Seller Inventory # DM108
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Title: Notes on Nursing. What it is, and what it is...
Publisher: London: Harrison
Publication Date: 1860
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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Notes on Nursing: what it is, and what it is not. New edition, revised and enlarged.
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London: Harrison,?, 1860
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Seller: Nigel Phillips ABA ILAB, Chilbolton, United Kingdom
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8vo, pp. xv, 221, (3). Half-title. Original black limp cloth, top of spine worn and a few small chips in joints, front free endpaper missing, otherwise a nice copy. Second and definitive edition of the most famous book in the history of nursing. For this edition, Nightingale enlarged her original slim volume of 79 pages to the size of a substantial book. This and later editions, which continued to be issued up to the turn of the century, are far rarer than the first edition in its various issues. ?Only the second version of Notes on Nursing, published as the Library Standard edition in July 1860, was intended for use as a reference work by professionals. This contains by far the fullest and most scientifically oriented text, and it begins with the comprehensive ?Digest? of its contents, listing with a great degree of accuracy the headings that fill the margins of the book. In its day it was expensive to produce and purchase, and the wealthy, deluxe format of this second edition gave the book respectability and permanence. The fullest and most sophisticated text is that of [this] the second version, the Library Standard edition. Nightingale's additions, which originated in this second version, are considerable and important.? (Notes on Nursing, The Commemorative Edition with Historical Commentary by Victor Skretkowicz, p. xvii.) See G&M 1612; Grolier One Hundred (Medicine), 71; and Lilly, Notable Medical Books, 215. Bishop & Goldie, Bio-bibliography, 5. Seller Inventory # 3416
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