White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
Price £24.00.
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Yates, S. A. Thompson.
Notes, Mainly Concerning Painted Windows: Made During a Journey in Italy and Switzerland with my brother, Edw. P. Thompson, February 15 to May 5, 1898
(Henry Young and Sons, 1898).
Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 35pp. Order No. NSBK-A14285
Keywords: B0008CLOLY, painted windows, stained glass, history, Switzerland, Italy, Italian, Swiss, art, architecture, antiquarian, travel, journeys, church, churches, religious, architecture, window, cathedral, European, Christianity, Christian
Price £55.00.
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Arnold-Forster, Frances.
Studies in Church Dedications: or England's Patron Saints
(Skeffington, 1899).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers.Cloth worn. Front board shakey, spine cover partly hanging off. A good working copy. xxv + 520pp. Order No. NSBK-A14399
Keywords: B00GNE80N6, religion, religious, history, saints, patron saints, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious orders, church, churches, Christianity, antiquarian
Price £28.00.
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Stern, Edgar E.
The Peppermint Train: Journey to a German-Jewish Childhood
(Florida UP, 1992).
A pre-Holocaust refugee's return visit to Germany in the 1980s. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. ix + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A3566
Keywords: 0813011094, Nazi Germany, German, Jewish, Jews, antisemitism, child, childhood, Edgar E. Stern, autobiography, child, Holocaust
Price £6.00.
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Hemans, Felicia.
The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc
(Frederick Warne & Co, n.d.).
Hardback. An edge-worn copy, internally good. Page edges gilt. xxiv + 708pp. Order No. NSBK-C654
Keywords: B01B6K155Q, Felicia Hemans, poems, poetry, women writers, sonnets, hymns, Mrs Hemans, nineteenth century, Britain, British, women, poets, poet, antiquarian
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Allibone, Finch.
In Pursuit of the Robber Baron: Recreating the Journeys of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and "The Terror of the World"
(Lennard Publishing, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A2532
Keywords: 1852910038, Italy, Balkans, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Byzantium, Norman, 11th century, Robert Guiscard
Price £2.00.
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Robins, Elizabeth.
Way Stations:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1st edition, 1913).
Hardback. Cloth worn, mainly at spine ends and edges. Spine dull with a little spotting, page edges, intro pgs, endpapers foxed - otherwise a good solid copy. Blue cloth. xii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C14930
Keywords: B00086JKKM, Elizabeth Robins, women's suffrage, woman suffrage, women writers, Where Are You Going To, fiction, suffragettes, acting, actresses, novels, novelists, theatre, collectible, antiquarian, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Women's Social and Political Union, actresses, actresss, theatre, drama, plays, novelists, feminists, actors, literature, original suffragette ephemera, Women Writers' Suffrage League, hunger strikes
Price £110.00.
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Lefebure, Molly.
The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Victor Gollancz, 1986).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. Ex library with minimal library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C8897
Keywords: 0575038713, drugs, addiction, opium, Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, literature, biography, biographies, history, marriage, drug addiction, Britain, British, England, English, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, romantics, romanticism, romantic period, Coleridges, Greta Hall
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