Author: P. H. Ditchfield
Title: Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time: An Account of Local Observances, Festival Customs, and Ancient Ceremonies Yet Surviving in Great Britain
Description: London, George Redway, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this social history of English customs, with newspaper articles tipped in to the endpapers. First edition. With a frontispiece. Exploring the history and origins of English social customs, with reference to Christmas, New Year's, Lent, Easter, May Day, dances, feasts, Guy Fawkes Night, local customs, and more. Written by Rev. Peter Hampson Ditchfield, a Church of England priest, historian and prolific author. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. Newspaper articles on the society of villages and farming areas tipped in by a previous owner. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and the odd ink annotation. Age toning to the endpapers. Newspaper articles tipped in to the endpapers. Previous owner's ink stamp to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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