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.

Buckton (Catherine M.)

Publication details: London: Longmans, Green,1879,

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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, called a herbarium.'

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FIRST EDITION,frontispiece and 127 text illustrations, a few leaves towards rear slightly creased at top corner, pp. xx, 180, foolscap 8vo, original pebble-grained dark green cloth, lettered in blind to upper board and in gilt to backstrip, the latter slightly dulled with a touch of rubbing at tips, very slight lean to spine, ownership inscriptions to half-title and front endpapers, that to flyleaf with the note in pencil: 'I wish you gardeners would take a leaf out of Madam Buxton's book', very good

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