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The English Fair
by David Kerr Cameron
ISBN: 0750917725
ISBN-13: 9780750917728
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd
Published date: 1998
Size: 10.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 2.25 pounds
Pages: 240
Publisher's Notes
England's old-time fairs were colorful, often bawdy, and a vital part of the country's economy. This lively, but comprehensive new study based on local sources and archives plus interviews with farmers and dealers traces the fair's history from early Saxon times to the great fairs of the Middle Ages with their vast array of the world's commodities, through the sheep gathers of the West Country to the turbulent cattle fairs; the notorious cloth fair of St. Bartholomew; and the mop fairs where servants were ritually bought and sold to the present day, where fairs are based purely on entertainment rather than trade. Colorfully written and fully illustrated in color and black and white, this book present a fascinating, sometimes violent tableu of dealers and merchants, cheapjacks, jugglers and fiddlers, the ever-present pickpockets and prostitutes, and above all, the people who flocked to the fairs to make them what they were: exciting, explosive, often violent social and economic gatherings.
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Alan Sutton 1998. Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 240pp. Illustrated throughout. 1st edition of this detailed study. A social history of the English Fair, tracing its history since early Saxon times to the present day and examing why most of today's fairs are based purely on entertainment rather than trade. ISBN 0750917725 ( more information) Offered by Peter J. Hadley Bookseller Ltd (Harwich Old Books) (United Kingdom)
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