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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Booth, Charles, ed.
Life and Labour of the People of London:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Volume III (3, Three): Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immigration. Original edition. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, gilt lettering to spine, good+ condition, firm. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16073
Keywords: London, streets, Charles Booth, Charles Booth's London, metropolitan, social history, poverty, poor, class, population, demography, demographic, occupations, working classes, working class, working-class, neighbourhood, Britain, British, England, English, Booths, Booth, social investigations, surveys, urban history, labor, labour, life and labour, towns, town, city, cities, urbanisation, classification, statistical, statistics, school boards, education, housing, neighbours, inhabitants, respectability, blocks, London, antiquarian, buildings, schools, immigration, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £42.00.
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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
Price £18.00.
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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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Honey, W. B.
Victoria and Albert Museum: A Handbook for the Study of Glass Vessels of All Periods and Countries and a Guide to the Museum Collection
(Ministry of Education, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library in library binding, with usual library stamps and markings, edges worn, otherwise good. 169pp. Order No. NSBK-A16036
Keywords: B000S5HB7W, Victoria and Albert Museum, history, glass, antiquarian
Price £16.95.
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
Price £15.00.
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