Author: WATERSON, MERLIN.
Title: The Servants Hall. A "Downstairs" History of a British Country House.
Description: First American Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxiv, 241; portrait frontispiece (Edward Prince, carpenter at Erddig in 1792), text illustrated with 137 b/w. plates, bibliography and notes, index, bound in original quarter green faux leather with cream papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, dustjacket, very good copy. New York; Pantheon Books; 1980. The life of a family and their servants where the skills and loyalty of the latter were consistently acknowledged, contradicting many generalizations made about domestic service in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Keywords: Miscellaneous England Hostory
Title: The Servants Hall. A "Downstairs" History of a British Country House.
Description: First American Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xxiv, 241; portrait frontispiece (Edward Prince, carpenter at Erddig in 1792), text illustrated with 137 b/w. plates, bibliography and notes, index, bound in original quarter green faux leather with cream papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine and upper board, dustjacket, very good copy. New York; Pantheon Books; 1980. The life of a family and their servants where the skills and loyalty of the latter were consistently acknowledged, contradicting many generalizations made about domestic service in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Keywords: Miscellaneous England Hostory
Price: AUD 35.00 = appr. US$ 24.22 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 124491
- Book number: 124491