Toussant-Samat, Maguelonne.
History of Food:
(Blackwell, 1992).
Translated by Anthea Bell. Hardback. Pages edges slightly soiled and spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 801pp. Order No. NSBK-A11961
Keywords: 0631177418, food, feeding eating, nourishment, menus, recipes, foodstuffs, animals, crops, world, medieval, Early Modern, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, fruit, meat, vegetables, pulses, wine
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Field, Jean.
She Dyed About Midnight: The Story of Landor House, Eastgate and the Cottages in Smith Street, Warwick
(Brewin Books, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly dented dustwrapper. viii + 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C7119
Keywords: 1858580005, Landor, Ann Johnson, dyed, died, Warwick, Warwickshire, Jean Field, houses, homes, schools, schooling, Eastgate, Britain, British, England, English, Eleanor Doorly, The King's High School, cottages, Smith Street, Early Modern, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, education, educational
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Magic Poster Greeting Cards, .
Magic Poster Greeting Cards: Pack 2: Assorted Pack of 13 Historic Magic Posters Reproduced as Greetings Cards
(Portrayer Publishers, 2005).
The images are printed in vibrant lithographic colours by Portrayer Publishers. 13 greetings cards, individually wrapped in cellophane, and each with its own envelope. Each card measures 6 inches x 4 inches, and has a plain interior, for your own message for any occasion. The selection includes: from top left, moving left to right: Alexander: Crystal Seer; Thurston: The Great Magician; Forrest & Company: Man Of Many Mysteries; Houdini: King Of Cards; Newmann The Great: Show Of Wonders; David Devant: Bubbles; Maskelyne & Cookes: Mysteries. From bottom left, moving left to right: Thurston: World's Famous Magician; Thurston: Kellar's Successor; Kellar: Levitation; Kellar: Portrait; Kellar: Imps, Fairies Landscape Orientation; Hardeen, Brother Of Houdini: The Lyric Theatre Showbill. Highly collectable. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Portrayer Publishers insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Brand new, fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-F10730
Keywords: magic, poster, posters, magic posters, magician, magicians, magic poster, magic posters, greetings, greeting card, greeting cards, historic, history, historical, magics, magically, card, cards, posters, poster, old time, show, shows, Kellar, Harry Kellar, Houdini, Hardeen, Thurston, Howard Thurston, Newmann, spirit, mysteries, master magician, master, spirits, spirit, seances, leisure, entertainment, mystery, Maskelyne, Devant, David Devant, conjuring, conjurors, conjure, conjurings, history of magic, magical history, magic school, stage, drama, ephemera, collector, collecting, collectors, collected, history, hobbies, hobby, images, art, representations, representation, vintage, 19th century, nineteenth century,Victorian, 20th century, twentieth century, modern, imagery, images, pictures, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, magic cards, magiccards, art, artwork
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Digby, George Wingfield.
French Tapestries from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries:
(B. T. Batsford, 1951).
With an Introduction and Notes on the Plates. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good+ in darkened, soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A14618
Keywords: B0000CI32U, early modern history, tapestry, tapestries, needlework, history, France, French, sewing
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
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Holderness, B. A.
Pre-Industrial England: Economy and Society from 1500 to 1750
(J. M. Dent & Sons, rpt., 1983).
Paperback. Very good. ix + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A4480
Keywords: 9780460111577, pre-industrial, England, English, history, Britian, British, economy, economics, society, Early Modern, trade, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, eighteenth century
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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
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Crane Kalman, Gallery.
Winifred Nicholson b.1893: Paintings February 22 - March 11 1972
(Crane Kalman Gallery, 1972).
Exhibition catalogue: With an introductory article by P. G Konody. 14 plates (in B/W and colour). Booklet. Olive clrd crinkled card wrappers, with sunning to front & rear at all 4 edges,for approx 2" depth, o/w internally very good. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-F5498
Keywords: B00185CLVW, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, english, england, britain, british, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, colors, booklet
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Pack of 8 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Assorted Designs, Suffragette Themes:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003).
Pack of 8 greetings cards (8 different designs) which reproduce attractive images on suffragette themes. The images are printed in vibrant lithographic colours. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Naomi Symes Books insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. Card 1: 'The Cat and Mouse Act', from a WSPU postcard, 1914. Card 2: Emmeline Pankhurst portrait from a modern, hand-painted oil painting, based on a photograph of her c.1909. Card 3: From a poster of 1908: Factory Acts - Regulations for Women. Card 4: 'The Suffragette Nails Her Colours to The Mast'. A masculine-looking woman attaches a 'Votes for Women' banner to her umbrella. An anti-women's suffrage image, a protest against the militancy of the suffragette movement, c.1908. Card 5: 'The Modern Inquisition'. From A WSPU poster, depicting the forcible feeding of suffragettes in prison, from the time of the January 1910 General Election. Card 6: From a Women Writers' Suffrage League poster, 1909, in which justice, personified as a woman, defends the female sex from male prejudice. Card 7: 'The Suffragette 1d Weekly'. From a poster advertising 'The Suffragette' newspaper, c.1912. Card 8: 'Meeting of Cabinet Ministers, 1978. Mrs Spankhurst, MP, Delivering her Maiden Speech'. Anti-suffrage, a satirical image from 1906, depicting four middle-aged women sitting around a tea table. (The prediction almost came true. 1978 was, of course, just one year short of Margaret Thatcher's first ministry!). 8 Greetings Cards. Fine, new. pp. Order No. NSBK-C7227
Keywords: B0032YKOKW, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, envelopes, suffrage imagery, postcard, postcards, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, cat and mouse act, liberals, liberal government, liberal party, pankhursts, pankhurst portraits, Emmeline Pankhurst, The Pankhursts, factory act, factory acts, women workers, woman worker, woman workers, modern inquisition, force feeding, forcible feeding, hunger strike, hunger strikes, prisons, imprisonment, imprisoned, suffragists, women's history, history, women, woman, acts of parliament, parliament, campaign, campaigners, women's rights, votes for women, voter, votes, women voter, woman voter, enfranchisement, enfranchise, The Franchise, colour images, Alfred Pearce, Mary Lowndes, The Suffragette Newspaper, propaganda, propagandists, drawing, drawings, painting, paintings, pankhurst, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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Ranchetti, Michele.
The Catholic Modernists: a Study of the Religious Reform Movement, 1864-1907
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by usual library stamps, otherwise good in slightly soiled, slightly worn dustwrapper. x + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-A3767
Keywords: 0192139444, Roman, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, religious, religion, history, modernists, modernism, Italy, France, England, Alfred Loisy, Ernesto Buonaiuti, George Tyrrell, Friedrich von Hugel, Salvatore Minnochi, reform, popery, pope, papal
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