WOMEN

35pp., 12mo. Heavily worn, with punch-hole in corner. No copy on COPAC.

57 items, comprising: ONE. Run of 56 issues of the Trust's reports, 1892-1949 (lacking issues for 1906, 1922, 1931). Each issue designed to be foldable like a deed into a narrow packet, with title printed at right angles to text for purpose. Until 1939 foolscap 8vo, varying in length from 12pp. to 8pp., and stapled; from 1940 shorter in length but still foolscap 8vo, except for four issues from 1943 to 1946, which are each 4pp, landscape 12mo. Title and layout altering as run proceeds.

Comprising: ONE. An unbroken run of 18 issues of the Association's reports from 1923 to 1940, with the three issues for 1945, 1953-1954 and 1956-1957 (including a duplicate of the 1931 issue. TWO. Four issues of 'List of Members, Committees and Representatives' (each including 'Proceedings of Annual General Meeting'), 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1949-1950 and 1951-1952. All 26 items published by the Association of Head Mistresses, 29 Gordon Square, WC1 [London]. 1923-1957.

Comprising: ONE: Bye-Laws. [1897.] 4pp., 12mo. Stitched into pink printed wraps. With application form (1p., 4to) loosely inserted. Fifteen bye-laws, with manuscript emendations reading 'altered 11.11.05' and 'altered 10.11.06'. TWO: Memorandum and Articles of Association. Registered the 1st Day of December, 1897. Busk, Mellor & Norris, 45 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. (London: Printed by Charles North, The Blackheath Press, S.E.) 31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. The only copy on COPAC at the London School of Economics.

4pp., small 4to, stapled top left corner, good condition. The second page is on 'Scholarship Examinations' (referring to an examination to be held in March 1916), and the third on 'Subjects for Examination'. The last page is headed 'Entrance Examination.' Attached to a prospectus (2pp., small 4to) headed 'St. Hugh's College, Oxford.' No publication details. [Oxford, c.1916?] Unfortunate misprint in last sentence: 'Students who have fulfilled certain conditions of residence and examinations ['may' inserted in manuscript here] become members of the College.' No copies on COPAC.

35pp., 8vo. Stapled. Including a 'Report from Oct. 1913 to Oct. 1914'. Pp.12-35 carry a 'List of Past and Present Students'. No copy on COPAC.

27 + xvii pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. Stapled, good condition.. Containing a 'Report of the Council, June, 1922-May, 1923', lists of council and committee members, and of those to whom degrees have been awarded. Pp.14-27 carry a list of 'Past and Present Undergraduate Members'. Pp.i-xvii is a list of members, with addresses. No copy on COPAC.

University of Oxford. St. Anne's Society, Musgrave House, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford.] 1947. 2pp., 8vo. Prospectus, divided into sections headed 'The Society', 'Applications', 'Residence' and 'Expenses'. No copy on COPAC.

59 + [1]pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. Containing a 'General Report for the Year ending Michaelmas, 1924.' Pp.35-55 carry a 'List of Members of the College, November, 1924.' No copy on COPAC.

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium, fair condition. No copy on COPAC.

Five issues, dated 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1915. Ranging from 159 to 237pp., 8vo, each with additional pages of advertisements, and each in red printed wraps. The first two issues in poor condition, with detached signatures and heavily-chipped covers loose. Each volume containing papers from a range of individuals (including the Countesses of Aberdeen and Jersey, Mrs Edwin Gray, Rev.

31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. The only copies on OCLC WorldCat at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Stanford.

8pp., foolscap 8vo. Stapled. Heavily worn. Three copies on COPAC.

88pp., 12mo. Printed front cover on blue paper, loose. In poor condition, worn and aged, with damage from rusty staple. No copy on COPAC.

14pp., 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled, good condition. The only copy on COPAC at Leeds.

. No publication details. 11pp., 12mo. Stapled. Good condition No copy on COPAC.

Full title: 'Women in the Civil Service. Copy of Regulations for Competitions governing the Appointment of Women to Situations in the New (Reorganisation) Classes in the Home Civil Service,and with regard to the Appointment and Employment of Married Women in Established Situations.' 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper, with wear to extremities and a couple of small rust stains. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Four copies lsited on WorldCat, one on COPAC (LSE).

Four charming and amusing cartoons from Punch's golden age. All four are executed in a similar style, but the identity of the cartoonist or cartoonists is unknown. (The first of the two cartoons in Item Two below, as published by Punch, has the monogram signature 'F C' engraved in the bottom right-hand corner. No Punch cartoonist with these initials is apparent.) ONE: Captioned: 'Another Brilliant Idea, Only Brillianter!' 21 x 13.5cm. In good condition, on leaf of browned high-acidity paper torn from a notebook. Two men idle in a punt while two women hold up sheets.

All items 4to, unbound, fold marks, some dusting, label of "Board of Education" on back page, with Library stamp of first page, with some handwritten information. Item 1. Prospectus for The Training College for Teachers, 4pp., with enclosure(loose) of a list of "Posts obtained by Students, who finished their course of training, December 1906"; 2. Prospectus for "Kindergarten and School for Boys and Girls" (Chairman, Sir William Mather, Treasurer, C.G. Montefiore), 4pp.; 3.

2pp., 8vo. Handbill. In fair condition, on aged, creased and worn paper. Shelfmarks (of the Board of Education Reference Library, London). Discussing the proposals: 'Differentiation on Account of Sex', 'Differentiation on Account of the Age of Pupils', 'Differentiation on Account of Area' and 'Allowances over and above Scale Salary'. Scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

4pp., 8vo. In grey-green printed wraps. In good condition, on aged paper, with rusted staples. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. The pamphlet can be roughly dated from the fact that Michael E. Sadler is named as Vice-Chancellor, a post he occupied between 1911 and 1923. No copy on COPAC.

[16]pp., landscape 12mo. With nine full-page photographic views ('Cherwell Hall - South East View', 'The Gateway', 'Cherwell Hall - The South Lawn', 'Porch at Front Door', 'The Entrance Hall', 'The Library, Cherwell Hall', 'The Iris Walk', 'A View in the Grounds, Cherwell Hall, showing Magdalen Tower', 'Cherwell Hall, The Oak Room'). In cream wraps printed in green. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Can be roughly dated from the fact of the College's principal being Catherine I.

Seven pamphlets, unbound, 20-32pp., 8vo, one damaged but complete,another sl. chipped, others complete and in fair condition, with labels, numbers and stamps of the Board of Education, sometimes obtrusive. Dating 1892-3, 1898-99 (missing 1893-4 to 1897-8), 1899-1900, 1900-1, 1901-2-3, 1903-4, 1905-6. Contents listed on title as follows: 1. Council of the Society; 2. Objects of the Society; 3. Prospectus of the Training College; 4. List of Former Students (many of their later "appointments", jobs, listed).

Two 8vo pamphlets entitled "Training Department of the Cheltenham Ladies' College" , 1899 and 1903, with twelve (12) pamphlets entitled "Prospectus of the Cheltenham Ladies' College Teachers' Training Department", unbound, c.9-11 pages each, 8vo, with Board of Education stamps, numbers and labels (stamps usually on front, labels on back). All give information about staff, courses, accommodation, qualifications, etc. Note: Se Josephine Kamm's "Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals): Girls' Education in English History"for thinformation and context.

The two documents are on 33 x 24 cm pieces of vellum, and are pinned together. Both in very good condition. Both are printed forms, made out by the signatory. Bramwell's certificate begins (with the manuscript portions in square brackets): 'These are to Certify that on the [Twenty eighth] day of [March] in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-[one] before me the undersigned [Sir George William Wilshere Bramwell Knight one of the Barons of Her Majestys Court of Exchequer] Appeared personally [Catherine Stein] the Wife of [Peter Stein] and produced a certain Indenture marked [A]'.

[title continued] "!To which is added the Registration of Births and Deaths | The Whole including Marriage | Breach of Promise | Husband and Wife | Settlements | Parent and Child | Registration." pp.iv.188 (additional 3 pages of advts, inc.inside back cover), limp cloth binding, attractive cover with some use of colour (see scan), covers stained, contents good. A surprisingly scarce book, only two copies listed on COPAC (Oxford and Cambridge).

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly aged and worn paper. Not having had 'la facilté de profiter de la bonne recommendation de Miss Louisa Hardy', she writes a letter of recommendation for her son, who will be passing through London for a few days: 'c'est lui qui vous portera nos compliments et vous remercira des articles des journaux que vous m'avez fait parvenir et qu'il m'a traduit'.

10pp., 12mo. Comprising fourteen leaves (the first three paginated to 6 and the rest unpaginated), with the central bifolium ('Fees (Exclusive of Vacations)' and perforated 'College Entrance Form') on pink paper and the rest in red. Stapled and unbound. In good condition, with stamp and shelfmarks of the Board of Education Library. Three perforated leaves, carrying the 'College Entrance Form' (as described above), 'Hall Entrance Form for Resident Women Students' and 'Entrance Certificate | To be signed by a qualified medical man.' The 'Rules and Regulations' are on pp.3-6, and include '5.

Both items in poor condition, with burn marks and damp damage [fire damaged much of the Society's archive]. Some of the text of the autograph letter has faded, and it may be that the signature to the typed note has washed away. Autograph Letter Signed: 2pp., 4to. He begins by offering to 'oppose anybody' in a debate that Mrs Roscoe is organising (at the Society of Women Journalists).

2pp., 12mo. The final leaf of the letter only. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. A poignant letter, given its author's early death. Regarding 'the Shelter' Mackirdy writes that 'Lady Brassey the Duchess of St Albans Lady Radnor & others have been giving big dinner parties etc for me & I only go in order to meet people who will help with the Shelter. I am not very strong and have such heavy work that now I find I simply cannot indulge my own tastes & enjoy my firends if I am going to do definite work.