Advice to young mothers on the physical education of their children / by a grandmother.

Inscription in ink inside front cover: La mia buona moglie Francesca, intenta sempre alla cura dei figli suoi, e nulla trascurando, sul[?] low ben essere, ha comprate questo libro, il 28 Novembre del 18[?]8, G. Rosetti; inscription in unknown hand in ink inside front cover: Remedy for Ring worms. Wash the [?] affected twice a day with warm vinegar; inscription in Frances Polidori Rossetti's hand in pencil inside front cover: For William, From his Mother, 1881; inscription in ink inside front cover: William Rossetti, by his Mother's bequest, 1886, see fly-leaf at end; inscription in unknown hand in ink inside front cover and on front and back of front flyleaf: [directions and information about substances]; few annotations in unknown hand in pencil throughout; inscription in unknown hand in ink on slip of paper pasted onto rear flyleaf: [directions and ingredients for a remedy of infection called The Chilblains]; inscription in unknown hand in ink on rear flyleaf: [table of contents for 8 subjects]; inscription in ink by William Michael Rossetti on rear flyleaf: This book was written by Lady Mountcashell, whom, under the name of Mrs. Mason, Shelley knew in Pisa in 1820 [...illegible] On the first cover of the book appear the handwritings of Gabriel & Frances Rossetti - The handwritings about chilblain (apart from F.R.'s heading), & on the cover here opposite, are not of my family & my mother (as noted in Christmas penciling) assigned this book to me in the year when my twins were born & when she obtained the book she was nursing Gabriel. W.M.R. 1905; inscription in unknown hand in ink inside rear cover: [recipe for some kind of dessert?].