Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Oversized. PAPERBACK.
Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous full page color plates. Essay by Rye Holmboe. Interview with the artist by Maria Giovanna Musso. Text in English and Ita; ian. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Chiesa di San Ludovico, Parma, Italy, June 22 - July 25, 2016. ; Tight, clean and crisp. A gently read book in excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; 4to; 120 pages.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Condition: New.
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Condition: New.
Published by 418 Strand London May no day given, 1869
One page, 12mo, aged, remnants of surface it was firmerly tipped on verso, text clear and complete. In secretarial hand headed "Gutter children", then address and date, then text as follows: "Sir | Should the enclosed circular meet with your approbation - I shall be very thankful for your kind support - & glad of a contribution in aid of my work. | Yours faithfully | Maria S. Rye". Note: "From 1868, when she handed over her law business to Lewin, Rye devoted herself exclusively to the emigration of pauper children, or, in a phrase which she herself coined, 'gutter children.'" [Wikipedia]From 1868, when she handed over her law business to Lewin, Rye devoted herself exclusively to the emigration of pauper children, or, in a phrase which she herself coined, 'gutter children.' See Image.
Published by 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine, with the integral blank leaf lightly tipped on to part of an old album page.
Seller: Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
418 Strend, London, 18 June 1870. Maria Susan Rye (1829-1903), social reformer. In the 1860s she helped to send girls of the middle class and domestic servants to Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and she visited these colonies to form committees for the protection of the emigrants. She was the author of Emigration of Educated Women (1861). From 1868 she devoted herself to the emigration of pauper children. The first party left England in October 1869. ". I am thankful to be able to say that / DV / I am starting this time with 115 children - & am hoping to be in England again in September to fetch another party of children for whom I also have openings.".