Treen and Other Wooden Bygones; An Encyclopaedia and Social History

London: Bell, 1969. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (light wear to boards, corners bumped and scuffed. Pages are clean and clear otherwise. Dust jacket has light shelfwear.). Brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; gilt spine lettering; golden dust jacket with black illustration and lettering; x, 458 pages 239 plates, illustrations, portrait. Contents: The apothecary -- Costume accessories -- Drinking -- Eating -- Farm -- Fire and lighting -- Kitchen -- Laundry and cleaning devices -- Love spoons and other love tokens -- Mortars, grinders and graters -- Moulds -- Nuts, gourds, fruit stone, jet and bog oak jewellery, petrified wood -- Parcelling, postage, sealing and document storage -- Pastimes -- Printing (textile and wallpaper) and woodcut and engraving blocks -- Reading, writing, copying, drawing, painting and modelling ancillaries -- Sailors', sailmakers' and fishermen's devices -- Scientific and reckoning, measuring, calculating and weighing -- Tea, coffee and chocolate-drinking accessories -- Textile workers' devices -- Tobacco accessories -- Toilet and bedroom accessories -- Tools, devices, techniquies and some products of specialized woodworkers -- Trade and craft devices, -- Trade signs, ships' figureheads, fairground steeds -- Tuition -- Watch stands.