Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - LORETO CONVENT GIBRALTAR PRIZE IN ATTRACTIVE 'CARTONNAGE ROMANTIQUE' BINDING -MME WOLLIEZ.Nouveaux souvenirs d'une mere de famille. (Tours): Alfred Mame et Fils, 1870. 'Bibliothèque de la jeunesse Chrétienne'. 'Septieme' edition. [2], 287pp. With engraved frontispiece, and five further engraved plates. Contemporary Loretto Convent Gibraltar printed prize label on front pastedown, with manuscript insertions to Miss 'Salvadora Gordon' for 'English grammar'. 'Cartonnage romantique' binding, with decorative embossed papered boards, and coloured illustration inlaid to upper cover. Size: 8vo (19cm x 11.5cm).Good condition. Binding rather worn, with loss to paper covering at top and foot of spine, as well as quite heavily rubbed corners. Some overall scuffing and minor marking to boards, and some general edge-wear to binding. Split along one side of spine, but hinges and binding quite solid, aside front rear board which is just starting to pull at the bottom edge. Light scattered spotting and age-toning to half-title, frontispiece and title, and a few other pages, otherwise text quite clean and bright., with just some occasional handling marks. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.⁂ Loreto [Loretto] Convent of Our Lady of Europe in Gibraltar is a school run by Loreto nuns - or 'sisters'. It was founded in 1845 by Mother Teresa Ball and fellow nuns at Gavino’s Dwellings, off Cornwall’s Lane. Some years later the nuns moved into the present building on Europa Road. The school began as a private boarding and day school for girls, and the nuns also taught in other schools in Gibraltar. Distinctive decorative bindings like this - known as 'cartonnage romantique' - were produced mainly in the French Second Republic-era, to be given typically as gifts or as school prizes. Often with inset coloured illustrations on the upper cover, as per this example, which shows Pelligro at his desk in his prison cell. key words:
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Binding: Hardback
Place of Publication: Tours
Non-Fiction Subject: True Stories
Language: French
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Manuscript
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Europe
Author: Mme Woillez
Publisher: Alfred Mame
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1870
