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Bertrand's Toyshop in Bath; Luxury Retailing 1685-1765 by Brett, Vanessa - 2014
by Brett, Vanessa
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Bertrand's Toyshop in Bath; Luxury Retailing 1685-1765
by Brett, Vanessa
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Wetherby: Oblong Creative Ltd, 2014. This is a fine new copy of this splendid and well produced volume. In dust-wrapper, 364pp illustrated throughout in colour. "Toys " were expensive luxuries such as gold snuffboxes, buckles, watches, canes, and porcelain. Toyshops also sold childrens playthings, theatre tickets, elixirs and scientific instruments and much more. Paul Bertrand was born in America of Huguenot parents. He worked in London as a goldsmith until his second marriage linked him to the family of Englands most successful toyshop owners, and took him to Bath. With over 230 illustrations and 364 pages, this hardback book takes a fresh approach to the history of retailing and of Bath. Through the topography and society of Bath and London in the early eighteenth century, and through Bertrands newly-discovered bank account, it reveals how shopkeepers, craftsmen and merchants rubbed shoulders with actors and lawyers, courtiers and soldiers. Bertrands customers included royalty, the middling sort, country dwellers and townsfolk. The book is about commerce, about people, about the objects that were part of their daily lives, and the development of a fashionable resort. Whereas many books on retailing, and books on Bath, focus on the last decades of the eighteenth century due to the availability of material, this book is about the first half of the century. The newly discovered bank account of this luxury shopkeeper is an important addition to the handful of known business archives relating to retailers of the period. It reveals the names of nearly 900 people of all social levels and over 100 trades and occupations. Paul Bertrand was at the centre of Bath life, not only because of his toyshop but also through the assembly rooms and carriers business of his partners. Illustrations include portraits, landscapes, maps, the paperwork on which banking and businesses depended, and the stock of a toyshop. The book will appeal to all those with an interest in the eighteenth century and the central role of trade and luxury goods. . First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
- Bookseller Rickaro Books Ltd (GB)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition Fine
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 0957599242
- ISBN 13 9780957599246
- Publisher Oblong Creative Ltd
- Place of Publication Wetherby
- Date Published 2014
- Keywords Georgian Retailing Social History Collecting Silver Toys Luxury Retailing History Bath Georgian Silver Snuff Boxes instruments
- Size 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Oblong Creative Ltd, Wetherby, 2014,. /Dust Jacket Included. 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0957599242 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 363pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0957599242 .
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