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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Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Kilham, Walter H.
Mexican Architecture of the Vice-Regal Period:
(Longmans, Green, 1927).
Illustrated with 84 plates. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, spine faded with some wear to spine ends & corners, otherwise very good, solid. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15128
Keywords: B0014NWU2S, Mexico, Mexican, Vice-Regal, Central American, Central America, Americas, buildings, Mexico City, churches, palaces, antiquarian
Price £48.00.
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Selby, Walford D., ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1882).
Number 7 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part I of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, minor damage to fly leaf, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. xlii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A11221
Keywords: B000HC77CK, 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, Chester, Lancaster, courts, rolls, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern
Price £25.00.
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Gardner, Alice.
A Short History of Newnham College Cambridge:
(Bowes and Bowes, 1921).
Hardback. A little soiling and splashing to blue cloth, spine faded, otherwise good and firm. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15726
Keywords: Cambridge, women, Newnham College, history, social history, Oxbridge, women's education, stored as antiquarian
Price £11.00.
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Lethaby, W. R.
Leadwork: Old and Ornamental and For The Most Part English
(Macmillan, 1893).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Some ink stains to cloth, top half of spine cover lacking. Spine and edges worn. Internally good and solid. viii + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A14960
Keywords: B002PEAQY4, lead, leadwork, antiquarian, buildings, decoration, history, architecture, roofs, gutters, fountains, craftsmanship, statues
Price £60.00.
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Mavor, William.
The English Spelling-Book: Accompanied by a Progressive Series of Easy and Familiar Lessons, Intended as an Introduction to a Correct Knowledge of the English Language
(Somers and Isaacs, new edition, revised and improved, 1851).
Hardback. Original embossed boards rebacked, edges worn, some browning / foxing to pages, otherwise good. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A15123
Keywords: B001PDBWWQ, English, England, spelling, spellings, grammar, language, spelling-books, education, antiquarian
Price £35.00.
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Spencer, Herbert.
Tumours Complicating Pregnancy, Labour and the Puerperium: Being The Lettsomian Lectures Delivered Before The Medical Society Of London, February and March 1920
(Harrison and Sons, 1920).
Very scarce. Hardback. Ex-library (St Bartholomew's Hospital College Library). Edges worn, otherwise a good copy. 78pp. Order No. NSBK-A13637
Keywords: B00126A1M8, Lettsomian Lectures, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medicine, medical, women, women's history, pregnancy, maternity, pregnant, having a baby, health, tumours, cysts, cancer, growth, babies, motherhood, mothers, labour, London, 1920s, twenties, twentieth century, puerperium, cervix, cervical cancer, Caesarean section, antiquarian
Price £75.00.
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Clifford-Smith, J.L.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: Manchester Meeting, 1879
(Longmans Green, 1880).
Hardback. Spine is rather worn with some loss to spine cover at both ends. Corners rubbed, original embossed cloth otherwise good, contents solid. 820pp. Order No. NSBK-C15306
Keywords: B00EBVKBRQ, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, social history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, antiquarian
Price £26.00.
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Blatchford, Robert.
Not Guilty: a Defence of the Bottom Dog
(Clarion Press, 1906).
Hardback. Spine edges and corners worn, otherwise good. 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A5491
Keywords: B0006DAEK2, Robert Blatchford, labour movement, Clarion Clubs, Clarion Movement, social history, Britain, British, England, English, Edwardian, labour history, class, heredity, working class, working classes, working-class, punishment, environment, influence of environment, period sources, contemporary comment, antiquarian
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