Author: GENTLEMAN.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Author: Frank Karslake
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Author: James Tregaskis (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 1336

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Author: Susan North
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192598201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathing, and the use of linen underwear as the sole cleaning agent for the body. However, these concepts do not apply to early modern England. Sweet and Clean? analyses etiquette and medical literature, revealing repeated recommendations to wash or bathe in order to clean the skin. Clean linen was essential for propriety but advice from medical experts was contradictory. Many doctors were convinced that it prevented the spread of contagious diseases, but others recommended flannel for undergarments, and a few thought changing a fever patient's linens was dangerous. The methodology of material culture helps determine if and how this advice was practiced. Evidence from inventories, household accounts and manuals, and surviving linen garments tracks underwear through its life-cycle of production, making, wearing, laundering, and final recycling. Although the material culture of washing bodies is much sparser, other sources, such as the Old Bailey records, paint a more accurate picture of cleanliness in early modern England than has been previously described. The contrasting analyses of linen and bodies reveal what histories material culture best serves. Finally, what of the diseases-plague, smallpox, and typhus-that cleanliness of body and clothes were thought to prevent? Did following early modern medical advice protect people from these illnesses?

Author: Sir James Winter Lake
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Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217463
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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"The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius "Soubise," and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men."--Publisher's website.

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Bibliography , Rare books , Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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