{"title":"Social Sciences","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"stewart-james-lovedale-past-and-present-1887-5108","title":"Lovedale: Past and Present.","description":"A Register of two thousand names. A record written in black and white, but more in white than black. With a European Roll. \"It is nothing, if it is not truth\".\u003cbr\u003eLovedale: South Africa. Printed at the Mission Press.. 1887.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 210x135mm. pp. xxiii [ibl], [5]- 642. Register 3L is missing 3M has been printed in duplicate - clearly a printer's error. Light brown cloth, lettered in black. Edges and corner worn, spine and boards marked. Head and foot of spine bumped and joints rubbed. Hinges weak and slightly cracked and foxing to title page but overall a nice copy of a book that is scarce in commerce, none appearing in the auction records. \u003cbr\u003eLovedale Mission Station was founded in 1824 by the Glasgow Missionary Society as an evangelical church mission. In 1841, the Lovedale Missionary Institute was established as a school for native South Africans boys and girls. James Stewart who had explored the Zambezi with David Livingstone, joined Lovedale in 1867 and became the principal in 1870. The education offered was truly progressive and Stewart seems to have been an inspirational figure. He dispensed with Greek and Latin on the grounds that the time would be better spent teaching English. The school was mixed race and offered technical training alongside academic studies. They farmed their own land and operated a printing press and later Lovedale expanded to include a teacher training college and a hospital. The school closed in 1979 but not before it educated figures as important as Steve Biko and Thabo Mbeki. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLovedale: Past and Present\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a history of the Institute, a description of the site and the school's purpose, methods and results. The bulk of the book is a fascinating register of the pupils who had attended the school or were still there. There are over 2000 names, each with a potted biography. Some of these are only a few lines but others are much fuller. Reading these brief lives of people who were given a transformational opportunity, is moving and absorbing. There are sad stories here but uplifting ones too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"[STEWART, James]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57088586482041,"sku":"5108","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/5108_1.jpg?v=1777654944"},{"product_id":"zangwill-edith-ayrton-the-call-1924-5135","title":"The Call","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLondon: George Allen \u0026amp; Unwin. 1924.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eA rare suffragette novel.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 182x120mm. pp. 378. Green cloth, lettered in red. Fading and slight soiling to spine and bumping to head and foot of spine. Edges toned and slight cracking to hinges. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy of a scarce book, Worldcat recording eleven copies and no copies appearing in the auction records. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Call\u003c\/em\u003e is regarded as on of the most important suffrage and feminist novels. Drawing heavily on the life of her stepmother, the scientist Hertha Ayrton, Zangwill tells the story of a young chemist Ursula Winfield who, angered at the injustices faced by women, abandons her work to join the suffrage movement. As the war begins she returns to work where her development of a method of extinguishing liquid fire helps the war effort. Once more, she faces a struggle as she tries to persuade the military to use the invention. Edith Zangwill was an active (and activist) member of the Women's Social and Political Union and a founder of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage. She acutely felt the difficulties faced by women both politically and professionally and this novel is her loud call for equality. Largely ignored through the twentieth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Call \u003c\/em\u003ehas recently been revived in a scholarly edition published by Bloomsbury and an attractive Persephone Books edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ZANGWILL, Edith Ayrton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57099509334393,"sku":"5135","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/5135_1.jpg?v=1777655176"},{"product_id":"black-clementina-an-agitator-1895-4940","title":"An Agitator.","description":"A Novel.\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Harper \u0026amp; Brothers Publishers.. 1895.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst American edition published the year after the London first edition. pp. 177, [1bl, 6 publisher's adverts]. Original beige cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in silver and brown. Some soiling and rubbing and internally there is some foxing but overall a nice copy. Front free endpaper is signed Clementina Black so this is either the author's own copy or was signed by her for someone else. Rare in commerce and comparatively uncommon institutionally, OCLC recording sixteen copies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Agitator\u003c\/em\u003e is Black's most overtly political work of fiction. It is about an engineer who becomes radicalized through the socialist movements of the late nineteenth century and embarks on a life of trade unionism, political agitation and strike action. Eleanor Marx (who was a friend of Black) described the novel as \"a realistic account of the British working-class movement\". Clementina Black was deeply involved in the world of socialist campaigning and suffragism but she was aware of the short-comings of the mostly middle-class leaders of these movements and An Agitator provides some wryly satirical digs at their impractical idealism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"BLACK, Clementina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193325166969,"sku":"4940","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4940_1.jpg?v=1777655246"},{"product_id":"black-clementina-caroline-1908-4941","title":"Caroline","description":"\u003cbr\u003eLondon: John Murray.. 1908.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003eInscribed by the author to her brother.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 8vo. 185x120mm. [4], 295 [1bl, 4 publisher's adverts]. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white to upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Joints and edges of boards rubbed and head and foot of spine bumped. Some marking to boards. Quite heavily foxed. Front free endpaper is inscribed \"Ernest Black from C.B. January 1908\". \u003cbr\u003eClementina Black is best known as an activist and propagandist in the socialist, trade union and women's suffrage movements, but she made her living as a writer of political tracts and novels. Apart from the overtly political The Agitator, her novels are historical romances. Caroline is set in the eighteenth century and concerns a wealthy young woman and her suitors. Unsurprisingly, this led to critics making comparisons with Jane Austen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"BLACK, Clementina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193325232505,"sku":"4941","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4941_1.jpg?v=1777655260"},{"product_id":"north-w-the-city-of-the-jugglers-or-free-trade-in-souls-1850-4943","title":"The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls.","description":"A Romance of the \"Golden\" Age.\u003cbr\u003eLondon: H.J.Gibbs.. 1850.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\"Soul exchange\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 199x120mm. pp. xii, 250 [2bl, 5 publisher's adverts, 1bl]. Frontispiece and three etchings by F.H.T.Bellew. Modern brown cloth, slight rubbing to extremities. Frontispiece is a little chipped along fore-edge and all plates are a little foxed and there is offsetting from them. Some other light foxing and marking elsewhere but otherwise a very good copy of a rare book, only two appearing in the auction records in the last century and OCLC locating only ten copies.\u003cbr\u003eThis 1850 edition was, it seems, the only edition of this strange novel until the University of South Carolina Press reprinted it, with no doubt unintended irony, in the 2008, the year of the great financial crash. \u003cem\u003eThe City of the Jugglers\u003c\/em\u003e is a satire on the stock market frenzies of the 1840 and describes how, following a financial crash, there develops a futures market in human souls. A strange fantasy on the relation between mammon and the spirit. Incidentally, the frontispiece contains a portrait of the author asleep and dreaming of this \"soul exchange\". This is thought to be the only portrait of one of the most elusive of Victorian writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NORTH, W","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193335554425,"sku":"4943","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4943_1.jpg?v=1777655498"},{"product_id":"on-the-security-and-manufacture-of-bank-notes","title":"On the security and manufacture of bank notes.","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Bradbury (1829-1860) was a printer who, with \u003cem\u003eThe Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, \u003c\/em\u003erevolutionised nature printing. 1856 saw him begin to take an interest in the printing of banknotes and the security issues that arose from this. This Royal Institution lecture, printed here by his father's firm, was intended to explain the ease with which banknotes were being forged. He advised the use of engraving on watermarks but with the proviso that if this did not work, then the Government should offer a reward to whoever could resolve the question of how best to print unforgeable banknotes. At about the same time as giving this lecture, Bradbury established his own company (Bradbury Wilkinson \u0026amp; Co) to engrave and print banknotes. It lasted until 1990. Bradbury himself was a troubled soul. He was accused of plagiarising his technique of nature printing from the Viennese Imperial Printer Alois Auer. This was a dispute that rumbled on, ending only in 1860 when Bradbury committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BRADBURY, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222578995577,"sku":"5144","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/BradburyBanknotes_77839481-9b05-4bfb-b812-83a1a5436a2a.jpg?v=1778075929"}],"url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/social-sciences.oembed","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}