English Home-Life 1500 to 1800 by Christina Hole (HQ179)

Published 1947: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original red embossed cloth with gilt titles on the cover and spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 184 + very clean and bright pages, previous owners bookplate on the first free page. Slightly chipped along the edges of the dust jacket and slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (HQ166)

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This decorative beauty is a 1947 first edition of English Home-Life 1500-1800 by Christina Hole. This wonderful vintage book is an attempt to describe some aspects of the ordinary home-life of country-dwellers in England during the sixteenth, and eighteenth centuries. It is handsomely illustrated with portraits, paintings and prints, in black and colour. Learn all about home life in the late Georgian times with chapters on marriage, the daily round, on hornbook and gown, holidays and travel and the home life of children. A great read for any history fan or avid reader!

Illustrated frontispiece, monochrome illustrations from portraits, paintings and prints throughout.

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