° ° Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters / ...

° ° Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters / Royal Naval Female School. A collection of 19th and early 20th century books, including works by Élisée Reclus, Sir Walter Scott and others, together with institutional reports and lists of contributors, several with gilt school monograms to the bindings and presentation prize certificates. (13) Including Élisée Reclus, The Earth: A Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe, Continents, Section I, third edition, London: Bickers and Son, 1877, illustrated with maps, including folding coloured examples, with a prize certificate awarded to Miss Alice Grant for Geography in July 1878 at the Royal Naval Female School, St Margaret's House, Isleworth; Sir Walter Scott, Kenilworth and The Fortunes of Nigel; John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic; together with Great Composers, Masters of Music, Studies in Modern Music, Roman Life and Story and further literary and geographical works. Also comprising institutional reports and lists of contributors, covering periods including 1840–1860, 1861–1870 and 1871–1880, relating to the school's administration and charitable support. The collection includes a presentation certificate awarded to Miss Ada Beatrice S. Pine for Music, dated 20 October 1905, at St Margaret's House, Twickenham, signed by the school's president and lady principal. Several volumes in decorative gilt-tooled leather bindings, incorporating repeated anchor motifs and institutional monograms, with others in cloth and more utilitarian bindings. The surviving presentation material provides a record of the school's educational activities and institutional history during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Estimate:£60

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