Howard swinstead (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 128pp hardback, burgundy cloth black-lettered, frontispiece, ex-library with usual stamps and labels.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Boards are worn, rubbed and scuffed. Corners and spine edges are curling and starting to fray. 128 pages. 128 pp.

A very good original cloth binding. Second edition signed by the Author, February 1897 (The first edition was published in December, 1896). 8vo. 7.75" x 5.25" x 1.00". pp.xviii/pp.233/[4pp. - Adverts] . A good tight green cloth binding, edges rubbed and bumped. Illustrated front board, image dulled. Titles in red to both front board and spine. Smooth spine dulled and rubbed. Endpapers lightly foxed. Handwritten dedication to front endpaper: "Hettie Tutin from J. H. S. to remember June 15th-20th 1901." Also; bookseller's blind stamp to front endpaper: "W. H. Smith & Son, London". Half-title present. Black & white photo frontispiece + 29 further black & white photo plates within the text, pages toned. G+. ** "Van-dwellers are, like the majority of mankind, as a class, neither scamps nor heroes. But if they are not better cared for, especially as regards the education of their children, they will contribute less that their proper share to the honour and credit of the nation in the times that are coming". (Introduction by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury). . …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A late nineteenth century analysis of the religious practices of Romani Gypsy populations, illustrated with contemporary photographs. The second edition, published the year after the first, of this late Victorian era study of Gypsies and Travelling People, with a particular emphasis on their religious practices. Illustrated with frequent contemporary photographs of the peoples in question.The work of Reverend John Howard Swinstead, chapters include 'Should Fairs be Reorganized or Abolished?', 'The Quack Orator' and 'Superstitions'.Prospective readers may wish to note that the tone of this work varies between the condescending and prejudicial, with the introduction from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury in his introduction expressing concern that the subject matter will 'contribute less that their proper share to the honour and credit of the nation in the times that are coming'With a four page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light mark to front board, with shelf wear to spine tail. Otherwise, externally smart. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean, with page perimeters browning due to paper type, as is common with this work. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

Gardner, Darton & Co. London. 1897. Second Edition. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated. Green pictorial cloth, red lettering. Pages browned, prelims a little soiled and foxed, inner hinge cracked but contents sound.

Zustand: Very good. 1897, London, Gardner, Darton & Co., second edition, ppxviii + 233 + (iv), black and white illustrations, cream cloth, gilt lettering. Although the work is unashamedly of the Christian mission nature, few people were mixing with, and being accepted by, Gypsies in the nineteenth century, and this remains a fascinating record of the families living and travelling in and around Wiltshire and Dorset.…