At Home: The American Family, 1750-1870
by Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0810918943
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918948
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About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 304 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Drawing on diaries, letters, household inventories and novels, the author offers a documented analysis of early American middle-class home life from 1750 to 1870." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Welcome home!; The parlors; The dining room; The kitchen; The bedchambers; Lighting devices and practices; "The daily dog-trot routine of domestic duties"; The quest for comfort : housekeeping practices and living arrangements the year round; "A very great trial to the temper": tribulations of the early American housewife; "It shall be procured agreeable to your liking": husband and wife as consumers.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111373
- Title
- At Home: The American Family, 1750-1870
- Author
- Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0810918943
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918948
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 2. Colonial, c. 1600-1775; XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 4. Late 19th Century; American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic;
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