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England: Crockers, Printers, Frome, 1829. 155 pp. Quarter light brown leather over gray boards with no lettering on the boards or spine. Leather is faded and cracked at the joints but joint is strong. Boards are rubbed and bumped at the corners. Minor foxing to endpapers and edges of the first 24 pages, otherwise remarkably clean and tight throughout. Ink inscription dated 1964 on front free endpaper and typed label on front paste down, "Compiled by the 2nd Marchioness of Bath." Elizabeth Isabella Thynne was the 2d Marchioness of Bath and lady of Longleat House one of the finest Elizabethan houses in England. The estate was worked by Cottagers in the early 19th century, farmers and craftsmen who worked from home before the industrial revolution fully changed manufacturing throughout England. The Marchioness compiled this manual to assist her Cottagers in "acquiring habits of industry, and of enjoying, in consequence, a greater degree of comfort,..." The manual treats of… Leer más