Town and Window Gardening.

Buckton (Catherine M.)

Town and Window Gardening.

Including the structure, habits, and uses of Plants: A Course of Sixteen Lectures given out of school hours to pupil-teachers and children attending the Leeds Board Schools.

Description: FIRST EDITION. Half-title. frontispiece, and 127 text illustrations; PP. xx, 180, 8vo; a very good copy in publisher's blind ruled and lettered dark green cloth; inscribed to Mrs Hill, from C. Williams, 1879, on the half-title.

Publication Details: London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1879

Notes: A scarce work by Catherine Buckton, the first woman elected to the Leeds School Board in 1873, who was also the founding Secretary to the Leeds Women's Suffrage Society (from 1871). She volunteered to provide classes "explanatory of the laws of health to working women" which were organised by Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education. She was invited to lecture in other towns; at Saltaire, there were audiences of 500 women. Her fame spread and Queen Victoria's daughter wrote from Germany for information.Includes directions, with illustrations, on 'how to form a small collection of dried plants, c...moreA scarce work by Catherine Buckton, the first woman elected to the Leeds School Board in 1873, who was also the founding Secretary to the Leeds Women's Suffrage Society (from 1871). She volunteered to provide classes "explanatory of the laws of health to working women" which were organised by Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education. She was invited to lecture in other towns; at Saltaire, there were audiences of 500 women. Her fame spread and Queen Victoria's daughter wrote from Germany for information.Includes directions, with illustrations, on 'how to form a small collection of dried plants, called a herbarium.' HIDE

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Price: £190

Subject: Sciences

Published Date: 1879

Stock Number: 74985

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