Bayly, Mary.
Ragged Homes: and How to Mend Them
(James Nisbet & Co, 1859).
Possibly a first edition. Impossible to be sure as one intro page is missing - the page between the preface and the opening of the text. Frontispiece also lacking. Ex library (Royal Edinburgh Infirmary) with usual library stamps and markings. Hardback. Ex library with usual stamps and markings, a firm copy. Original embossed royal blue boards, with attractive gilt decoation to the spine & front. Edges & corners worn. Good. viii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C16052
Keywords: poverty, poor, Victorian, social history, antiquarian, housing, homes, domesticitiy, nineteenth century
Price £95.00.
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
Price £16.00.
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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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Sinclair, Catherine.
Modern Accomplishments: or, the March of the Intellect
(William Whyte, fourth edition, fifth thousand, 1837).
Hardback. All page edges gilt. Boards worn at edges but attractive with gilt decoration. A little splitting, internally and externally at spine, but overall good and solid. xii + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C16050
Keywords: Catherine Sinclair, women, education, accomplishments, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, women's, antiquarian
Price £36.00.
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Fenwick, Eliza.
Secresy: or, the Ruin on the Rock
(Pandora, 1989).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. x + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-C15494
Keywords: 9780863583070, women writers, gothic novels, eighteenth century, 18th, literature, Eliza Fenwick, friendship, romanticism
Price £7.00.
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Wharncliffe, Lord, James, ed.
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
(Richard Bentley, second edition, revised, 1837).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Nicely bound in leather - bright and firm. Gilt bands, titles and decoration to spine. Gilt edging, marble-effect page edges. A little scuffing / marking to leather. Else very good. lxiv + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C16067
Keywords: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bute, eighteenth century, 18th, history, letters, works, correspondence, literature, women writers, Lord Wharncliffe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Turkish, inoculation, smallpox, vaccines, vaccine, antiquarian section under W
Price £40.00.
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Randell, Keith.
Luther and the German Reformation, 1517-55:
(Edward Arnold, 1988).
Paperback. Covers creased and slightly worn, otherwise good. vi + 101pp. Order No. NSBK-A14557
Keywords: 071317630X, Luther, Lutheranism, protestantism, German Reformation, 16th century, sixteenth century, Germany, religion, religious
Price £6.00.
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Sandford, Mrs John.
Woman: in her Domestic and Social Character
(Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 2nd edition, 1832).
Hardback. Re-backed, very smartly. A little soiling to boards, and rubbing to spine, otherwise very good. x + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C16005
Keywords: antiquarian section, woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Mrs John Sandford, female, history
Price £26.00.
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Redman, William.
Illustrated Handbook Of Information On Pewter And Sheffield Plate: With Full Particulars Of Touch Marks, Maker's Marks, etc
(William Redman, 1903).
Hardback. Boards darkened and slightly soiled. Attractive gilt lettering and design to front board, a little wear to edges, otherwise good. 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A14374
Keywords: B002AGIAOK, pewter, old pewter, sheffield plate, metals, metal, pewter ware, history, antiquarian, collecting sheffield plate
Price £24.00.
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Selby, Walford, D. ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1883).
Number 8 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part II of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. 225 - 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A11222
Keywords: B000HC77D4, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, courts, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern, charters, calendars, indexes
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