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Home Comfort : A History of Domestic Arrangements in Association with the National Trust.
by Hardyment, Christina
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670823651
- ISBN 13
- 9780670823659
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Viking, 1992. No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright clean boards, tiny mark to rear cover near spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. 230pp. The subject of this book is best described as domestic archaeology, a quest for establishing exactly how our ancestors kept themslves clean, warm and well-fed. This the author did by visiting over a hundred National Trust properties which she examined in great detail. Illustrated in black & white. The emphasis is on text and fact rather than pictures. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 10 x 7.5 inches.
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- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002584
- Title
- Home Comfort : A History of Domestic Arrangements in Association with the National Trust.
- Author
- Hardyment, Christina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670823651
- ISBN 13
- 9780670823659
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- House, Home, Household, Domestic Archaeology, National Trust, History, Mrs Beeton
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History;
- Size
- 10 x 7.5 inches
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