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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Halley, Robert.
Lancashire: its Puritanism and Nonconformity
(Tubbs And Brook, 1869).
In two volumes. Map of Lancashire present, though a little torn. Covers boards partly detached at spine. Hardbacks. Condition poor. Both vols in need of total rebind. Ex library, covers worn with stamps on front, all pages present but some loose. Overall shaky, working copies only. xi + 492; viii + 525pp. Order No. NSBK-A14471
Keywords: B00271VZDG, Lancashire, nonconformity, puritanism, religion, religious, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dissent, nonconformists, Reformation, Presbyterianism, abbey, religious houses, priories, monasteries, abbeys, priory, early modern, antiquarian, churches, church, Christianity
Price £52.00.
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Dane, Clemence.
The Women's Side:
(Herbert Jenkins, 1926).
Hardback. A little fading / soiling to red cloth, especially at spine, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15928
Keywords: B00085URVY, Clemence Dane, women, antiquarian, suffragettes, education, votes, woman question, marriage
Price £25.00.
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Jessop, Les and Sinclair, N.T.
Sunderland Museum: the People's Palace in the Park
(Tyne & Wear Museums, 1996).
Paperback. A little sunning to the card covers (natural with age), otherwise very good. iii + 74pp. Order No. NSBK-A16093
Keywords: 9780905974651, stored with antiquarian, Sunderland Museum, Sunderland, history, museums, artefacts, Newcastle, North East, England, Tyne and Wear, library, art gallery, winter gardens, historical
Price £30.00.
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Corfe, Tom.
Swan in Sunderland:
(Eyewitness, Sunderland Polytechnic, 1979).
Ringbound booklet. Covers and page edges rather foxed, otherwise good. 30pp. Order No. NSBK-A16098
Keywords: Joseph Wilson Swan, history, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, North East, social history, England, Britain, lighting, lamps, photography, science, electricity, Tom Corfe, electric, Victoria, Victorian, stored in antiquarian section
Price £26.50.
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Holmes, M.R., London Museum.
Arms and Armour in Tudor and Stuart London:
(HMSO, 1957).
Booklet. Ex library. Soiled paper covers present but completely detached, a good working copy of this booklet. 39 + platespp. Order No. NSBK-A15743
Keywords: B0000CJQTQ, arms, armaments, London, Tudors, Stuarts, history, early modern, stored with antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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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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Sabuda, Robert and Reinhart, Matthew.
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Mega-Beasts Pop-Up
(Walker Books, 2007).
An amazing pop-up book about the amazing mega-beasts that preceded us on planet earth. Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, back lower corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good condition, all parts working and intact. pp. Order No. NSBK-A16021
Keywords: 9781406305913, B00RWM4YKG, stored with antiquarian, dinosaurs, pop-up books, prehistoric, children's books,mega-beasts, childhood, Encyclopedia Prehistorica, Ice Age, mammoths, dinosaur, mammals, animals
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Dickens, Charles.
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dickens: His Letters To Her. Edited With Notes By Walter Dexter. With A Foreword By Their Daughter, Kate Perugini
(Constable, 1935).
Hardback. Dark brown foxing spots to page edges, slight wear to board edges, & light soiling to maroon cloth, otherwise good+, a sturdy copy. xvii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A15807
Keywords: B001691SO6, Charles Dickens, letters, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, marriage, Catherine Dickens, history, literary, antiquarian
Price £26.00.
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