The Elizabethan Home: Discovered in Two Dialogues By Claudius Hollyband and Peter Erondell by Claudius Hollyband; Peter Erondell; M. St. Clare Bryne (editor) - 1949

London: Methuen, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine. Decorated paper-covered boards, DW, 12mo., xxiii, 91 pages, 4 halftone plates and 9 line illustrations. Reprint of the 1920's Etchell's and Macdonald edition. A fine copy in a fine DW save mild soil and one closed tear at the rear panel, in archival mylar.

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarter brown buckram with decorated paper-covered boards, 8vo., xiv, 95 pages, eight redrawn woodcuts. The Haslewood Books. One of 725 numbered copies printed at the Westminster Press on all-rag paper. Endpapers toned, rear flyleaf has a 1.5 inch tear, last page of text roughly opened, edgewear and moderate soiling to boards, still a near very good copy of a charming book, in archival mylar.

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. New and Revised Edition. A few tears and chipping with some light soiling. 91 pages, 4 half tone plates and 9 line illustrations. A picture of social life at the end of the sixteenth century..

Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1925. hbk 95pp edition limited to 725 copies of which this is #580 illus with contemporary woodcuts ex university library with usual library markings, boards are shelfworn bumped and slightly discolored, internally an excellent clean tight unmarked text now in acetate jacket

London: The Haslewood Books; Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1925 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". Not stated. An interesting historical record of life in the Elizabethan period from dialogues reprinted from the time. First thus of The Elizabethan Home Discovered in 2 Dialogues by Claudius Hollyband and Peter Erondell in the original publisher's quarter cloth binding. Edited by M. St. Clare Byrne. Limited edition of 725 numbered copies. This is number 300.These dialogues have been reprinted from the work of Hollyband and Erondell, two refugees who taught French in Elizabethan London. Their experiences give us a picture of every day life at this time. Illustrated with engravings throughout the text. Includes two publisher's advertisements as inserts. Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. This has resulted in some… Read More

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1925. Edited by M. St. Clare Byrne, 1925. Pp. xiv+96(last blank), frontispiece, vignette title page, text illustrations, bibliographical and textual notes, glossary; med. 8vop; qr. light brown linen, spine lettered in gilt, orange/red papered boards, patterned with tiny gilt fleurs de lys, small damp stain to upper board, edges a trifle faded, the bottom fore-corners lightly worn; uncut; free endpapers faintly offset; Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald/The Haslewood Books, London, 1925. One of 650 numbered copies thus (total edition 725). Ransom 6. *The text is selected from four 'conversation manuals' written by two Huguenot refugees who taught French for their livelihood in Elizabethan England. The illustrations are reproduced from the Roxburgh Ballads.