Five Victorian printed reports to conferences relating to the blind, including ones held at Yorkshire School for the Blind; Royal Normal College for the Blind; General Institution for the Blind, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

The five reports in good condition, on aged and lightly-worn paper. The five bound together in a worn red calf half-binding, with marbled endpapers and strengthened inner hinges (outer hinges sprung). In gilt on spine: 'THE BLIND | CONFERENCES | LONDON |1876 | LONDON | 1876 | YORK | 1883 | NORWOOD | 1890 | BIRMINGHAM | 1894.' First item carries stamp and shelfmarks of the Education Department Library, London; other items with numbered labels on title-pages. Presentation label on front fly-leaf, with following in manuscript: 'Presented to the Education Department Library by Mr. William Harris of Eastbourne, Jan. 1900'. All five items scarce, as the following entries indicate. ONE: 'Training of the Blind. Report of a Special Committee of the Charity Organisation Society Presented to the Council February 21, 1876'. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. and at the Central Office of the Society, 15 Buckingham Street, Adelphi, W.C. 1876. 60pp., 8vo. In brown printed wraps. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC at Trinity College Dublin and only microform copies on OCLC WorldCat. TWO: 'The Blind. School Board for London, 1876. Reprint of the Report of Conference on the Instruction of Blind Children &c. Held July 21st, 1876'. London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square. 1886. 14pp., 8vo. Scarce: the only copy on COPAC at Senate House, and none on OCLC WorldCat. THREE: 'Report of the Jubilee Celebration of the Foundation of the Yorkshire School for the Blind; and of the Conference of Managers, Teachers, & Friends of the Blind, held in the Manor House, York, July 16th to 26th, 1883; with an Appendix on the Cologne Congress of 1888.' York: Printed at the "Daily Herald" Office, Coney Street. 1889. 247pp., 8vo. Two fold-out plates: the first a coloured table titled 'Dr. Magnus's graphic representation of the causes of blindness in 2528 examined cases of blindness.'; the second a 'Map of the British Isles, shewing places where blind institutions are established'. With front printed wrap. Scarce: no copies on COPAC and two copies on OCLC WorldCat. FOUR: 'Report of the Conference of the Blind and their Friends, Held at the Royal Normal College for the Blind In July, 1890.' London: Farmer & Sons, Printers, 295, Edgware Road, W. 1891. 163pp., 8vo. Scarce: no copies located on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. FIVE: 'The Education of the Blind. Report of the Conference held at the General Institution for the Blind, Carpenter Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Wednesday and Thursday, 13th and 14th June, 1894. Under the Presidency of His Worship the Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. Alderman G. J. Johnson.' Birmingham: The "Journal" Printing Office, New Street. [1894.] 83pp., 8vo. With front printed wrap. Scarce: no copies located on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.