ISBN: 9780868403694 - children of the back lanes (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Previous owner's name. Some fading to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; [viii], 249, [3 (blank)] pages. Brown boards. Page dimensions: 214 x 133mm. Illustrated. "When the first fleet landed in Sydney Cove in 1788, 36 of the passengers were children. Almost immediately some were abandoned by their parents and the long, sad recorded history of destitute and neglected children in Australia had begun. By 1806 there were 1,832 children in the colony of which 1,023 were illegitimate. Little wonder then that the clergy and government officials were concerned about the orphaned children, especially the girls, who 'were abandoned to every kind of vice'. Governor King took action to withdraw the children from the 'vicious examples of their abandoned parents', and in 1801 established the Female Orphan School to house about 70 girls. Here they were taught needlework, reading, spinning and 'some few writing'. Splendid training indeed for future domestics or 'virtuous wifehood.'" - from dust-jacket blurb.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original brown boards (a trifle rubbed) in dustwrapper (sunning to spine, a trifle nicked); pp. [viii (last blank)], 250 (last blank), with illustrations. A near fine copy.