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At Home: The American Family, 1750-1870
by Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0810918943
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918948
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998. Book. As New. Cloth. Quarto, deep green cloth covered boards with gilt title and gilt spine titles. 304 pp. including index, bibliography and notes. Very generously illustrated throughout with color reproductions of period paintings, portraits, prints and engravings. A beautiful book production which tells the story of daily domestic life in the American family between the lat colonial period and the end of the 19th century. Using the window of the art of the period and the frame of the rooms of the bourgeois house, (dining room, parlor, bedroom, etc.) the authors analyse and illustrated what actual daily life was like in the period. This is a beautiful collector's copy with very fresh, rich, dark green cloth with sparkling gilt title and spine titles, unmarked and unread, in a crisp, very tight, fresh, glossy, unblemished dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. AS NEW..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09470
- Title
- At Home: The American Family, 1750-1870
- Author
- Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0810918943
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918948
- Publisher
- Harry N Abrams Inc
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- HOME, FAMILY, HISTORY, CULTURAL, STUDIES, SOCIOLOGY, TRADITION, TRADITIONAL, AMERICAN, UNITED STATES, MOTHER, FATHER, CHILDREN, DOMESTIC, AFFAIRS, 18TH, 19TH, CENTURY , RESIDENCE, BUILDING, HOUSE, DINING ROOM, LIVING, DAILY, BEDROOM, ILLUSTRATED. ILLUSTRA
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- Art; Architecture;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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