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MacKenzie, [Georgiana] Muir, Irby, [Adeline Paulina], Gladstone, [William] (preface).
Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe.
Publisher: Daldy, Isbister, and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1877
Stock Code: 15429
Fifth edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo, pp., xvii, [3], 313, [1], plus frontispiece, 2 maps (1 colour printed and folding), 1 folding view, and 7 illustrated plates; ii, [2], 341, [1] (glossary) 4 (plea for Bosnian and Herzegovinian refugee fund), plus folding view frontispiece, and 8 illustrated plates. Collated and complete. Publisher’s green morocco-grain cloth; titled in gilt to spine; panel design in blind to boards; citron end-papers. Soiling to head o boards; joints and extremities a touch rubbed; spine-tips softened. Head of title-page excised, not affecting text; soiling and foxing to map; contents otherwise clean and in good order. A solid copy. An account of the extensive travels of Georgiana Muir Mackenzie and Adeline Paulina Irby through the Balkans in the years 1861-64. The pair shared a mutual interest in the condition and schooling of Slavonic women and girls, and organised schooling for children in region. Irby and MacKenzie were of such significance to the education of girls in the region that they were mentioned in parliament, which led to Prime Minister William Gladstone writing a new introduction to the second edition of this book, republished here. £150.00