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Beatrice and Sidney Webb at the Trades Hall, Adelaide, 1898
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Beatrice and Sidney Webb at the Trades Hall, Adelaide, 1898

by WEBB, Beatrice and Sidney

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Mosman, N.S.W.: The Pump Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Fine. Number 55 of 80 copies. Fine press publication regarding the work of Beatrice Webb (1858 -1943) and Sidney Webb (1859 -1947), noted English Fabian Socialists who visited Australia in 1898 addressing the United Trades and Labour Council in Adelaide. "Mrs Webb... remarked that public opinion in Australia and in all the colonies was strangely backward on the subject of factory legistlation. It should be the business of all trade unionists to destroy the idea that unregulated individual bargaining was the best for the worker. It was the restriction of the hours of labour that guaranteed the personal freedom of those who had to work..." [Beatrice Webb, Adelaide, 1898.]. Octavo, original string-bound paper wrappers, 8 pages, 2 photographic portraits, a fine copy.
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Cassell's Shilling Cookery

Cassell's Shilling Cookery

by PAYNE, A.G. (editor)

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London: Cassell & Co, 1900. Small octavo, red cloth wrappers, in lovely original condition, some wear. With chapters on Australian meat and homemade wine. 'The age in which we live is essentially one of progress, and in no branch of the fine arts is progress more marked than in the art of cookery... The secret of good cooking is economy, in the highest sense of the word. The good cook will extract all the goodness and utilise all the materials at his or her disposal, whereas the inferior and bad cook, through ignorance, commit the crime of waste. We must remember that when we waste food, we in one sense rob the poor... The present work has been written on the basis of the maxim that economy and simplicity are not incompatible with excellence and elegance. We have also, in compiling it, borne in mind that there is an increasingly large class of persons who, without being vegetarians, consume a greater amount of vegetable and farinaceous food than was customary years back. Those persons will find… Read More
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Female Beauty as Preserved and Improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress;; and especially by the...

Female Beauty as Preserved and Improved by Regimen, Cleanliness and Dress;; and especially by the Adaptation, Colour and Arrangement of Dress, as variously influencing the Forms, Complexion & Expression of Each Indivual, and rendering Cosmetic Impositions Unnecessary

by WALKER, Mrs A.

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Thomas Hurst, 65, St Paul's Church-Yard: London, 1837. First Edition. J.W. Wright and E.T. Parris. All that regards regimen and health being furnished by medical friends, and revised by Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. Vice President of the College of Surgeons." A rare and detailed study of nineteenth-century health, of particular interest also for the fascinating (and very early!) 'before and after' plates of women's fashion. Octavo, 11 plates (10 in colour), the colour plates bound as matched pairs with the upper plates featuring peek-a-boo windows to reveal the image beneath; shaken, but a fine copy in contemporary half green morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
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Gavarni in London. Sketches of Life and Character with Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers
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Gavarni in London. Sketches of Life and Character with Illustrative Essays by Popular Writers

by SMITH, Albert

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London: David Bogue, 1849. Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (1804-1866), pseudonym Gavarni, was a French master lithographer noted for his fashion and satirical illustrations. In 1847 he travelled to London and produced a series of images condemning the conditions of the English working-classes and urban poor, here used to illustrate a series of written descriptions by leading writers of the day. Quarto, original gilt cloth (expertly rebacked), all edges gilt, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and full-page plates throughout; cloth rubbed with some scattered marks, internally fine, a nice copy.
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Handbook for Students

Handbook for Students

by The University of Melbourne

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Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 1926. 'This Handbook has been compiled to give in short compass the essentials of the various courses which may be taken at the University, and in addition some general notes and information concerning University life.' S.A. Octavo, 219 pages + advertisements, a very good copy.
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The Listener [7 editions]
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The Listener [7 editions]

by [BBC] British Broadcasting Corporation

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British Broadcasting Corporation, 1956. First Edition. Jean Seaton, official historian of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): "[The Listener] was edited with a real eye, a testament to the power of the editor, intelligent and constructive and with a style driven by the urgency and topicality of the BBC, but about as real an insight into what the serious minds of the time were thinking about," she said. "At that time in the 1930s, The Listener was part of the immense ambition of the BBC to be part of British life, and early on established a tone more bohemian than the BBC." THE GUARDIAN, 2011 Collection includes "I Believe in China' by the Rev. H.B. Rattenbury (15 March, 1945); 'The Menace to Free Journalism in America' by Mary McCarthy (15 May, 1953); 'The Age of the Universe' by C.A. Coulson (21 May, 1953); 'The Use and Misuse of Science' by the Archbishop of York (25 February, 1954); 'Bernard Shaw: a Personal Memory' by Esmé Percy (26 May, 1955); 'What is American Conservatism?' by… Read More
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The Modern Housekeepers' Guide; With special reference to electric cookery

The Modern Housekeepers' Guide; With special reference to electric cookery

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Montreal: General Steel Wares Limited, 1929. Near fine. Covers everything from damask table cloths to renovating old woodwork. Octavo, 38 pages, 3 full page colour plates + 5 full page black & white plates + many additional illustrations throughout, mild edgewear to cover otherwise near fine.
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The Old Book: A Medieval Anthology
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The Old Book: A Medieval Anthology

by HARTLEY, Dorothy

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London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Hartley. Signed limited edition, printed on Japanese vellum; this is number 29 of 1350 copies. This copy bears a presentation inscription in English and Hebrew to Dr. Robert Wallace, Vice-Chancellor of the University, from Rabbi Falk, September 1936. Rabbi Falk's immense literary collection is now housed in the Rabbi L. A. Falk Memorial Library at the Great Synagogue in Sydney. Small quarto, colour frontispiece, illustrated throughout, a fine copy in the original polished calf, blind decorated in relief.
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Paying Guests

Paying Guests

by [MRS DASKEIN] QUIN, Tarella

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Melbourne & Sydney: Lothian Book Publishing Co, 1917. First Edition. Australian author, Tarella Quin (1877 -1934) began her literary career writing children's books in collaboration with the celebrated artist, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Quin published her first book with Outhwaite in 1910 - Gum Tree Brownie and Other Faerie Folk of the Never-Never - embarking later into the world of romantic outback fiction for adults. 'Nelia's beauty was spoilt by her mutinous discontent with a fate that had chosen to send them bad seasons when she was just at the age to burst from bush-girl chrysalis into a butterfly. It robbed her tilted mouth of gaity, and put storm into a pair of the most glorious grey-blue eyes that ever girl possessed.' (Chapter 1, Paying Guests ). Octavo, 311pages, bound in cloth boards, spine frayed at hinges, pages lightly browned, a good copy of an uncommon book.
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The Sexual Life of Japan: Being and Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City.; Or the History of...
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The Sexual Life of Japan: Being and Exhaustive Study of the Nightless City.; Or the "History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

by J.E. De Becker

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Japan: Box of Curios Printing and Publishing Co, 1905. Third Edition, revised and with an appendix. Privately printed for the author. Fine copy in later half-crushed red morocco with marbled paper boards, gilt titles on black leather with raised gilt bands. Octavo, top edge gilt, others uncut, 386 pp + 25 plates.
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YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT WATKINS SHREDSOPE

YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT WATKINS SHREDSOPE

by [WATKINS]

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Canada, no date. Dynamic and engaging advertisment for soap detergent, pre-dating the advent of washing machines. One sheet, doubled-sided colour printing, 280 mm x 215 mm, faint fold lines, crisp corners, in very good overall condition.
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