Florence Nightingale
Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen
Offsetting and penciled inscriptions to both front and rear FEPs
The illustrations have been printed from the original woodblocks and colour stencilled by The Curwen Press: all under the case of Francis Meynell
which inspired Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Sybil's Garden of Pleasant Beasts Agatha Christie Florence NightingaleSybil's Garden of Pleasant Beasts, by Sybil and Katharine Corbert. London: Duckworth & Co, 1898. First edition. Oblong 4to, [11 x 8ins]. Pp. 18, included engraved & printed in colour illustrations by Lemercier of Paris. Coloured illustrated boards, lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped to extremities, foxing and offsetting to prelims, ear marks to most pages, a few closed tears and small chips (none affecting the illustrations), and some letters scribbled