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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) Notes on Hospitals... third edition, enlarged and for the most part re-written, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Mr. Humbert offered by Florence Nightingale Dec 16/63" on title, Longman, Green, 1863
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NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)
Notes on Hospitals... third edition, enlarged and for the most part re-written, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Mr. Humbert offered by Florence Nightingale Dec 16/63" on title, 2 large folding plans of London and Paris, 11 folding plans of hospitals, 3 folding tables, publisher's cloth, joints worn with loss at head of spine, hinges cracked, front free endpaper loose [cf. Garrison & Morton 1611, citing first edition of 1859], 4to, Longman, Green, 1863
Footnotes
AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF NOTES ON HOSPITALS, inscribed two days after publication. The 1863 edition was "massively augmented and rewritten that it is effectively a new book" (Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform, 2012, p.79).
























