Trevelyan, G.M.

Illustrated English Social History. – Volume One: Chaucer’s England and the Early Tudors / Volume Two: The Age of Shakespeare and The Stuart Period / Volume Three: The Eighteenth Century / Volume Four: The Nineteenth Century. Illustrations Selected by Ruth C. Wright.

Four Volumes (Complete Set). London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 / 1950 / 1951 / 1952. 22.2 cm x 14.5 cm. Pagination: Volume One: Colour frontispiece, XVI, 175 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. / Volume Two: Colour frontispiece, XI, 206 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. / Volume Three: Colour frontispiece, XI, 209 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout./ Volume Four: XI, 186 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor to moderate foxing to front, rear pastedown enpapers, endpapers and dustjackets. Edges discoloured. Faded red decoration to top edges. Dustjackets slightly frayed, Volume Four with one illustration loosely inserted. A previous owners name, dated 1950 and inscription on front enpaper of Volume Two. Ephemera loosely inserted in Volume Three.

Includes for example the following chapters: Volume One: Chaucer’s England: Field, Village and Manor-House / Town and Church / England in the Age of Caxton / Tudor England. Introduction. ‘The End of the Middle Ages?’ / England During the Anti-Clerical Revolution etc.
Volume Two: Shakespeare’s England / The Towns / The Countryside / Classes and Modes of Life / Elizabethan Homes / Religion and Universities/ The Social Policy of the Elizabethan State / The England of Charles and Cromwell / East India Company / Household Life / Restoration England etc.
Volume Three: Defoe’s England- Queen Anne, 1702-1714 / Dr.Johnson’s England: Medicine and Philanthropy / The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions Begin / Country House Life / Domestic Servants / Scotland At The Time of The Union of 1707 etc.
Volume Four: Cobbett’s England: Change in Town and Country / Factories / Trade Unions / Women and the New World / Navy and Army / Between the Two Reform Bills / The Second Half of the Victorian Era etc.

G.M. Trevelyan’s English Social History has proved itself, by its combination of scholarship, literary quality and themes of great human interest, to be a work of universal and enduring value. The illustrations have been selected with scholarly care both for their relation to their relation to the text and for their intrinsic interest. They illustrate the life of the people at every level, making an appropraite addition to an already famous text. (From jacket notes)

George Macaulay Trevelyan OM CBE FRS FBA, was a British historian and academic. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: English History · English History – Rare · English Industrial History · History of Culture · History of England · Social History
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200232AB

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