Caroline haslett (6 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1936 Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No Dust Jacket. Bumped corners. Canting evident in the binding. Wearing on covers and spine. Foxing on flyleaf and edge of pages. Inscribed by previous owner on front endpaper. Includes original foldout diagram. 428p.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original stapled colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains 32 (+ covers) printed pages of text, priced 1/6 to the front cover. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. We currently hold in stock four other countries from this kitchen series. Member of the P.B.F.A. NETHERLANDS (Holland).…

Première édition en anglais de la biographie de Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, l'inventeur de l'alternateur.Envoi autographe des auteurs en page de garde.Nombreuses planches hors texte.

Publisher's Cloth. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First edition of a scarce work. viii, 118 pp. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's light blue cloth. Sunning and lean to spine. Name written in ink to ffep, which also bears the bookplate of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of Great Britain and Ireland. Dame Caroline Haslett was a prominent feminist and electrical engineer, who co-founded the Women's Engineering Society, which was founded in 1919 at a time when women were being forced out of engineering roles they had previously undertook during the First World War. Published in 1949, in the wake of the horrors of the atomic bomb, 'Problems Have No Sex' is a practical feminist work exploring the role of women in the workplace, politics and in society. One of its unique points is the advocating of electricity to lessen women's workload in the home. A clean copy. 16mo.…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 422pp, illustrated, pencilled owner's name on endpaper, foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, black cloth gilt., spine ends rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

The rare first edition, first impression, in the uncommon and stylish dust jacket by famed Art Deco illustrator Bip Pares. The Electrical Handbook for Women was the 'cornerstone publication' of the Electrical Association for Women, which was founded in 1924 by engineer Caroline Haslett and other members of the Women's Engineering Society, 'in part to encourage the use of electricity in the home' (Oxford Dictionary of National Bibliography). The contents are well-illustrated and include sections on the general principles of electrical technology, legal and regulatory issues, and technical details of applications like lighting, heating, cooking, and laundry. Though edited by Haslett, the book's main author was electrical engineer Margaret Partridge (1891-1967), who began her career as a munitions worker during the First World War, then founded her own firm, M. Partridge & Co., Domestic Engineers. 'The new company focused on providing lighting and electric power for farm and country houses. In 1922 she put on an exhibition of electric models and machines in Exeter, including a range of labour-saving devices aimed at women in the home. It was predicted that her exhibition would "stir up the women of Exeter to demand the installation of electricity"' (The Woman Engineer, col. 1, no. 17, 1923). At the completion of her first rural electrification scheme in Brampton in 1926 she wrote to Haslett, 'My dear, for sheer exciting experience give me a town to light' (ODNB). First edition; 8vo; photographic frontispiece and 19 plates of which 15 are double-sided, folding map, numerous diagrams and illustrations within the text, old tape residue to the free endpapers, spotting to the top edge of the text block and slightly to the fore-edge, short closed tear and associated creasing at the edge of the map; original blue cloth, titles to spine and EWA roundel to upper board in silver, boards slightly bowed, spine very slightly faded and rolled, a very good copy in the rubbed, creased, and dulled jacket with some small chips and short closed tears; 416pp.…