Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - DESCRIBING 'INFANT GARDENS' - OR KINDERGARTENS - FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH -[MARENHOLTZ-BULOW (Baroness Bertha von, German educationalist, 1810-1893); FROBEL (Frederick, German educationalist, 1782-1852)].Woman's Educational Mission: being an explanation of Frederick Fröbel's system of infant gardens. (London): Darton & Co., 1855. First English edition. iv, 88 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title page, and 5 [of 6] further full-page plates. Green blind-stamped cloth, with gilt lettering on upper cover. Ex-libris 'Library of the Children's Building Historical Department / World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893', with label to front pastedown and remnants of paper pouch on rear pastedown. Further blindstamp on title page 'Randolph-Macon Woman's College Library'. Size: 8vo (23.7cm x 16cm).Fair only condition. A reading copy only. Rather sub-par example of a rare book. Lacks one engraved plate. Spine backing is defective. Boards sunned around the edges, with some marking, and with quite heavy wear to edges and corners. Inner hinges reinforced. Frontispiece trimmed (without loss of illustrated area) and age-toned. Engraved title page also trimmed and detached. Some age-toning and edgewear to letterpress title page. Occasional wear to edges of text pages, with a few short closed tears and corner chips. Minor offsetting from plates to text. One further plate lightly trimmed and another with a short closed tear. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.A reading / reference [and partly repaired] copy of a nevertheless rare and important work on the kindergarten - or 'infant garden' - system of education, conceived by German educator Friedrich Fröbel, and described by Bertha von Marenholtz-Bulow. This is the first edition in English, translated from the original German.⁂ Marenholtz-Bulow first met Fröbel in 1850, and became a disciple of his ideas, devoting her life to founding kindergartens in Germany and many other European countries. This first English translation was intended to spread the concept of kindergartens in England and America. This copy bears the label of the library of the Historial Department of the Children's Building at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. key words:
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Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Society & Education
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Baroness Bertha von Marenholtz-Bulow
Original/Reproduction: Original
Publisher: Darton & Co.
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1855
