Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600-1770

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Yale University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated & b/w photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little-used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE* Illustrations: A number of b/w photo-illustrations, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 249 pp. text. lxxxiv pp. bibliography, notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences - traffic jams, noisy neighbours, pollution, food scares - but urban nuisances of the past existed on a different scale entirely, as this book explains in vivid detail. Focusing on offences to the eyes, ears, noses, taste buds, and skin of inhabitants of England's pre-Industrial Revolution cities. Hubbub transports us to a world in which residents were scarred by smallpox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs and dogs roamed free, and food hygiene consisted of little more than spit and polish.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./3rd. with no visible faults.*