1826 THE EVERY-DAY BOOK OR EVERLASTING CALENDAR OF AMUSEMENTS BY HONE 2 VOLS *

Description: I have here for sale a 2-book set entitled THE EVERY-DAY BOOK Vols I and II or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, incident to each of the Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days in Past and Present Times; forming a Complete History of the Year, Months & Seasons and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack, by William Hone. Both volumes have a number of b/w illustrations in the text especially when describing some bizarre event or person! Some of the weird things I have included are:Stoning Jews in Lent - A CustomSt Valentine's Day customsCanonbury Tower in IslingtonBuy a Broom girls from the NetherlandsPoem about Captain StarkeyThe Bartholomew Fair 1721The Giant Boy who weighed 22 stoneVoelker's GymnasticsSt Cecilia a Monkeys' Tea PartyElizabeth Woodcock who survived 8 days and nights in a snow holethe Biddenden Maids of Kent who were joined at the hip and shoulderthe Marks for allotting DolmoorsFestival of the Cobblers of ParisCoya Shawsware's Tomb in St Botolph's Bishopsgate, LondonHarvest Home at Hawkesbury on CotswoldThe Lottery Wheel 1826 and Drawing PrizesCharles Price, the arch-ImposterHalf brown leather on brown marbled hardboards. Spines should have gilt bands and gilt title lettering but Vol I has no spine leather and Vol II's is starting to curl and lift on one side. Boards are well rubbed and wear to corners and board edges. Vol I has both boards detached and Vol II's rear board is detached. Sporadic foxing in both volumes. Binding generally is tight. Index at the back of each book, last couple of pages are a little loose. Condition: fair/good. Pages are paginated by column, so Vol I 1719 pages (859 pages), Vol II 1711 pages (855 pages), 22 x 14 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

Price: 29.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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Shipping Cost: 59.47 GBP