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
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Parris, Leslie.
Landscape in Britain, c 1750-1850:
(The Tate Gallery, 1973).
Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise very good. 142pp. Order No. NSBK-A5804
Keywords: 0900874708, landscape, painting, painters, art, artists, countryside, country, nature, natural, Romanticism, picturesque, antiquities, travel, The Old Masters, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £8.00.
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Kerfoot, J.B.
American Pewter:
(Crown Publishers, New York, 1942).
500 Illustrations. Large format. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in soiled, chipped, slightly torn dustwrapper. xxii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A14321
Keywords: B0007DV9ZU, pewter, antiques, American, pewter-making, collecting, USA, America, American pewter, antique, metal
Price £26.00.
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Faithfull, Lilian M.
In The House Of My Pilgrimage:
(Chatto and Windus, 1924).
Hardback. Some light wear to cloth and rubbing to edges and spine ends, light foxing, otherwise a good working copy. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15770
Keywords: B000KQYYPG, stored in antiquarian, history, women's history, Lilian M. Faithfull, autobiographies, autobiography, Cheltenham Ladies College, Somerville, Oxford
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Gilbey, Walter.
The Old English War-horse: Or the Great Horse as it Appears, at Intervals, in Contemporary Coins and Pictures During the Centuries of its Development into the Shire-horse. With Notes
(Vinton, 1888).
Two dates in the margins of the book have sadly been crossed out in ink. Text is otherwise not annotated, but there is some light foxing / soiling on some pages, not affecting legibility. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. Boards darkened / thumbed, with fraying to spine edges. A little cracking internally at spine, else good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A14314
Keywords: B000875WPI, horses, shire-horses, shires, war-horses, equestrian, history, rural, Victorian, coins, illustrations, agriculture, antiquarian
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Heath, June.
Identifying and Valuing Black and White Pot Lids:
(Southern Collectors Publications, 1977).
A good working copy. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, covers & page edges browned and slightly soiled, small split to base of spine. 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A15787
Keywords: 9780905438030, antiques, collecting, pot lids, household, domesticity, marketing, advertising, history
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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
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Morris, R. J.
Cholera, 1832: the Social Reponse to an Epidemic
(Croom Helm, 1976).
General editors: J. F. C. Harrison and Stephen Yeo. Scarce. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in faded, chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A13440
Keywords: 0856643777, cholera, epidemics, diseases, water, water supplies, sanitation, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, sanitary, urban, urbanisation, medical, medicine, science, morality, class, Sunderland, Manchester, hospitals, Edinburgh, quarantine, public health, illness, sickness, towns, cities, town, city
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Allibone, Finch.
In Pursuit of the Robber Baron: Recreating the Journeys of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and "The Terror of the World"
(Lennard Publishing, 1988).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A2532
Keywords: 1852910038, Italy, Balkans, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Byzantium, Norman, 11th century, Robert Guiscard
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Hemans, Felicia.
The Poetical Works of Mrs Hemans: With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc
(Frederick Warne & Co, n.d.).
Hardback. An edge-worn copy, internally good. Page edges gilt. xxiv + 708pp. Order No. NSBK-C654
Keywords: B01B6K155Q, Felicia Hemans, poems, poetry, women writers, sonnets, hymns, Mrs Hemans, nineteenth century, Britain, British, women, poets, poet, antiquarian
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