Bachelorism Portrayed. ... By a member of the female society, for the extinction of that useless portion of mankind, OLD BACHELORS.

London: W Nicholson and Sons, N.D. 12mo. 19[1]pp including wraps. Original printed decorated yellow paper wraps. Rear wrap very lightly soiled. * BL lists a Wm. Nicholson, Halifax edition [1865?]. This, a Wakefield printing, looks later.

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Book number: 38461

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Provincial printing

[WHAMOND, Alexander.]

Chapters from the life of James Tacket.

Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son. Edinburgh: Seton & Mackenzie. Hamilton: W Naismith, 1860. Small 8vo. 302pp. Original blind-stamped brown grained-cloth gilt, yellow eps. Binding rubbed with wear and lightly soiled; light spotting and soiling to text. Author's presentation inscription to ffep. Hamilton printing.

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Book number: 41812

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history scotland Provincial printing

[The Irish Register, or a list of the duchesses, dowagers, countesses, widow ladies ... as register'd by the Dublin Society ...]

[London]: Dublin printed, [1742.] 8vo. Pp [3]-56, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals. Disbound. Lacks title-leaf A1; first and last pages soiled. * A 37 page list of suitable marriage partners to be found in England, prefaced by an essay by the President of the Hibernian Society. Unfortunately lacking the title-leaf.

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Book number: 35008

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history

ANDREWS, William.

At the Sign of the Barber's Pole. Studies in hirsute history.

Cottingham: J. R. Tutin, 1904. Small 8vo. xiv, 121pp, frontis, plates within the pagination. Original red cloth gilt, teg o/w uncut. Extremes very lightly rubbed; spine and part of boards sun-faded; cloth partly 'bubbled; boards slightly cockled. * Author's signed presentation inscription to ffep recto and his headed ALS tipped-in.

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Book number: 32344

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Hair

ASHBY, M. K.

Joseph Ashby of Tysoe 1859-1919. A study of English village life.

Cambridge: University Press, 1961 1st reprint. 8vo. xiii[i], 302[2]pp, frontis. Original blue cloth gilt, chipped and soiled d/w. A few light pencil notes to rfep verso.

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Book number: 33540

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history

COLE, G. D. H. (Editor, Intro & Notes.)

Letters from William Cobbett to Edward Thornton written in the years 1797 to 1800.

London: OUP, 1937. 8vo. xlvi, 127pp. Original brown cloth gilt, te coloured. Very light isolated spotting to prelims.

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Book number: 31244

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History Politics

COLLIER, Frances.

The Family Economy of the Working Classes in the Cotton Industry, 1784-1833. Edited by R. S. Fitton.

Manchester: University Press, 1964. 4to. x, 94pp, 12 text tables. Original navy cloth gilt, chipped and slightly browned and soiled d/w. Ex-reference library withonly evidence to d/w and two ink-stamps to eps.

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Book number: 33586

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Economics Cotton Industry

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ALLOTMENTS COMMITTEE.

Keeping fit by allotment digging: annual report September, 1936 to August, 1937.

London: Friends House, 1937. 8vo. 27pp, 4 double-sided plates. Original pictorial printed glazed-paper wraps, stapled. Staples rusted - text body holding firm but wraps loosening. Further relevant printed leaflets loosely inserted.

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Book number: 44393

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history World War II Gardening Allotments

DANSON, J.T.

Statistical Observations on the Growth of the Human Body (Males) in Height and Weight from Eighteen to Thirty years of age. Read before The Statistical Society, January 18th, 1881.

London: Edward Stanford. 1881. 16 pp, occasional tables. Original printed blue paper wraps.

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Book number: 32024

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history medicine

GREY, Cecil and Margery.

The Bed, or the Clinophile's Vade Mecum. Decorated by Michael Ayrton.

London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1946. 8vo. 280pp including decorated title-page, text illustrations (some full-page). Original quarter blue cloth gilt, purple paper-covered boards, colour printed pictorial eps, glassine-protected rubbed d/w.

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Book number: 31246

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History Literature Illustrated

GREY, Howard; Graham STUART.

The Victorians by the Sea.

London: Academy Editions, 1973. 4to. Unpaginated, 132 text illustrations. Original grey cloth gilt, very slightly browned and soiled d/w.

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Book number: 31238

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Social History Illustrated

HALL, B. T.

Hodgson Pratt & his work for the Workmen's Club Movement. Second annual memorial lecture, 1913.

London: Hodgson Pratt Memorial Ltd, 1913. 8vo. 16pp (including wraps), text illustration. Original pictorial printed paper wraps, sewn. Wraps lightly soiled. Pratt a notable social reformer and advocate for working men's clubs. COPC: LSE only. Nothing added in OCLC.

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Book number: 37551

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history

HARPER, Charles G.

The Smugglers: picturesque chapters in the story of an ancient craft.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1909. 8vo. xii, 252pp, frontis, title-page vignette, 35 plates, title-page printed in green and black. Original decorated green cloth gilt, teg o/w uncut. Extremes rubbed; a few small light stains to cloth; light spotting to prelims, last few leaves and occasionally to text; binding easing very slightly at a couple of gatherings.

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Book number: 30792

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Illustrated Marine

HARRISON, Frederick.

Life in a Medieval College: the story of the Vicars-Choral of York Minster.

London: John Murray, 1952. 8vo. 349pp, plan printed on blue paper; 3 double-sided plates. Original pale blue cloth gilt, glassine-protected rubbed d/w. Cloth to spine tips sun-faded.

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Book number: 31234

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history Theology Yorkshire

HIEOVER, Harry.

The World: how to square it.

London: T C Newby, 1854. Small 8vo. vi,, 290pp. Contemporary half red pebble-grained morocco gilt, raised bands, spine lettered direct, marbled sides, eps and leaf-edges. Boards rubbed with very slight wear; prelims and last few leaves very lightly spotted.

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Book number: 29960

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: social history binding