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Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Privately published; scarce title. Paperback in Near Fine condition, oblong 8vo; Color illustrated stiff wrappers, color illustrations of Friedel's wooden toys throughout; Light wear, inscription by Friedel on front free end-paper (putative, see bookseller for more information). Bookseller accession no.: 14151. [quoted from Biogr.Mems Fell. R. Soc. 2015:61,123-143, publ on line 21 Aug 2015: Mary Horder married the physicist Jacques Friedel in 1952; she had studied as a sculptor for five years at the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts under Alfred Turner and John Skeaping. Owing to a prolonged illness she switched to wooden toy-making, primarily for Messrs Heal & Sons of Tottenham Court Road. Her partner in this enterprise was Maïta Frank, wife of the physicist Charles (later Sir Charles) Frank at Bristol University, and their workshop was in Bristol.].