Signed First Edition Mrs. Emma Willard and her Pupils

1898. [Women's Education] Emma Willard and her Pupils, Mrs. Russell Sage, New York, 1898. First Edition Signed by a teacher from the Willard school on front fly: "Presented to Dorothy Limm for being neither absent nor tardy during the year 1916-7 Eliza Kellas Emma Willard School." A detailed account of the life and work of a pioneer among women's education and the founder of the Troy Female Seminary. Includes a record of Pupils; Emma Willard was an American educator whose work in women's education, particularly as founder of the Troy Female Seminary, spurred the establishment of high schools for girls and of women's colleges and coeducational universities.Hardcover Blue nubbly cloth, gilt spine title, gilt cover coat of arms, beveled edges, blind covers borders, top edge gilt, tissued frontis, & a handful of portraits in the text. 854 + 57 pages. Hardcover, 8" x 10" inches. A good copy with top right corner of front cover well rubbed, interiors clean and bright.