L’Instruction supérieure pour les femmes... extrait de la Revue de…

8vo (245 × 155 mm), pp. 19, [1]. Original yellow wrappers, inscribed at head: ‘A mon éminent Confrère B. Greard Émile de Laveley’. Slightly dusty, spine split, with closed tears to upper cover, but a good copy..

First edition, presentation copy, arguing for the proper provision of university education for women. The author surveys recent developments around the world, notably in the United States, where the women’s education movement has been most marked (and citing the Philadelphia medical school and the University of Michigan as examples) and in Great Britain (citing University College, London, Girton and Somerville Colleges at Cambridge and Oxford respectively). WorldCat locates a single copy: Università Bocconi, Milan.