Four Antique Books Collection Lot
Vintage Farmers Account Book/Diary- 1866-1919 -Hollie Smith, Table Grove IL
Bell's British theatre, consisting of the most esteemed English plays. Volume the fifth. Being the third volume of tragedies. Containing All for Love, by Mr. Dryden. The Orphan, by Mr. T. Otway. Tancred and Sigismunda, by Mr. Thomson. George Barnwell, by Mr. Lillo. Isabella, altered by Southerne. 1776
[ALEXANDER, William (1767-1816)]
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manner of the English. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions
Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English: Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, With DescriptionsThis figure may be said rather to represent the usual dress of the farmers' servants in the southern parts of the kingdom. The frock, which he wears over his other clothes, is made of coarse linen, much in the same form as a shirt, except that the front is close, and usually stitched or plaited in a fanciful manner, as are also the shoulders and back part of the neck. The small keg, seen on the ground, contains his beverage, when employed in the fields, and his provisions he carries in a wallet. These labourers are, in general, a hardy, robust class of men, and furnish the best soldiers in our armies. It may be observed here, that the peasantry and farmers' servants in the southern counties of England are far behind their brethren in the more northern parts
Little Orphan Annie Never Say Die 1930