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Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Second Printing. Reflections on a century's progress in ordinary persons' lives, rather thn an account of kings and wars; topics include transportation, communication, education, royalty, the wealthy, the middle classes, servants, the poor. Second printing, in the year of original publication. Stout hardcover, full green cloth, gilt titling. Shows some wear, corners rubbed, minor scuffing to rear cover; big shop rubberstamp inside front cover and page 115, part of jacket pasted to free endsheet, light foxing. Text clean; xxii, [2], 258 pages + 6 pages ads; index, brief bibliography, 48 b/w plates as called for. Size: Thick Octavo.

Various (illustratore). The North American Review Vol. 211 No. 2 February 1920.

Original Red Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint 1929. 235p + 4p adverts. A social history of a Country at War. A classic. The first reprint in the same year as first published. a look back 10 years after the wend of WWI - includes accounts of war work by women, with interesting appendices on comparative housekeeping costs and budgets, rationing, cookery, income tax, and more, by the 'doyenne of writers on domestic economy'. the photo frontis of a young woman in the naval gun factory at Woolwich has a caption: " At the time when women were doing work such as this a newspaper article appeared objecting to women in trousers" gives a flavour! In original boards., The book is tight and clean with a previous owners name on the fep and a small stab mark hidden on the front cover but penetrating 4 pages. Not obtrusive . Some marginal toning and some fading of the spine but still Very good copy of this classic. Wonderful period photos. See scans.