Physical description

Illustrated book with dust jacket. Book has a royal blue cover withtitle, author's and publlisher's name embossed in silver on the spine. Dust jacket has title (yellow and black ink) the word 'by' (white ink), author's name(yellow ink outlined in black) and the words 'book society choice' (white ink) are printed on the front of the dust jacket, Title (yellow ink) 'by' (white ink) author's name (black ink) and publisher's name (white ink) are printed on the spine of the dustjacket. There is also a white retangular sticker, on which the previous catalogue number is printed, on the dustjacket spine. On the back of the dustjacket is printed Lord Ellesmere's tribute to Florence Nightingale, House of Lords, May 5, 1856.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the top of the front end-page the name 'Winifred Young' is written in blue ink, above this the previous catalogue number is written in pencil. Inside the front cover is a small rectangular printed sticker 'Margaret Webber, Bookseller, Melbourne

Summary

Biography of Florence Nighingale