The Stream of Time Social and Domestic Life in England 1805-1861. With Eighty-Three Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. SIGNED COPY.
by PEEL, MRS C.S.:
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About This Item
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931 1st. Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Purple/maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top page edges yellow. In very good condition. Spine faded, a couple of minor handling marks to cloth. Authors inscription to front endpaper “For my dear, kind Addie, from Dorothy C. Peel.” Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 265pp + 2pp adverts. B&W photo illustrations over 44 plates, plus smaller text ills. Dorothy Constance Peel, aka Mrs C.S. Peel, prolific journalist and writer of numerous books on household management and domestic social history. She wrote the weekly column “La Manage” on cooking and gave advice on economising during the First World War. She was appointed a co-director of the womens’ service in the Ministry of Food during this time along with Mrs Pember Reeves.
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- Title
- The Stream of Time Social and Domestic Life in England 1805-1861. With Eighty-Three Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. SIGNED COPY.
- Author
- PEEL, MRS C.S.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931 1st
- Keywords
- HISTORY History Illustrated Books First Edition Domestic Life Social Signed copy
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