Subject Terms: England -- Social life and customs. - YCBA Collections Search Search Results

1. Glig-gamena angel-deod : or the sports and pastimes of the people of England; including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time: illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings; in which are represented most of the popular diversions / by Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1810
Physical Description:: [2], xlix, [7], 357, [1] p. : 39 sepia plates. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Glig-gamena angel-deod : or, the sports and pastimes of the people of England ; including the rural and domestic recreations, May-games, mummeries, pageants, processions, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by engravings selected from ancient paintings ; in which are represented most of the popular diversions / By Joseph Strutt.

Creator:: Strutt, Joseph, 1749–1802
Date:: 1801
Physical Description:: 1 p.l., 1, [6], 301, [1] p. : col. front., XXXIX col. pl. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The rural life of England. By William Howitt ...

Creator:: Howitt, William, 1792–1879
Date:: 1844
Physical Description:: xxiv, 615 p. ill. 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The English spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank ...

Creator:: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:: 1825-1826
Physical Description:: 2 v. col. front., ill., col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The Faber book of diaries / edited by Simon Brett.

Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: xii, 498 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Verney letters of the eighteenth century from the mss. at Claydon House, edited by Margaret Maria Lady Verney ...

Creator:: Verney family
Date:: [1930]
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., 1 illus., plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. The old home in England, A.D. 1100 to 1830; a running commentary on the life of the times, the home and its furniture.

Creator:: Chappelow, Archibald Cecil, 1886–
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: xi, 156, [3] p. illus. 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Georgian England : a survey of social life, trades, industries & art from 1700 to 1820 / by A.E. Richardson.

Creator:: Richardson, A. E. (Albert Edward), Sir, 1880–1964
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: viii, 202 p., 93 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Crown pictorial : art and the British monarchy / Linda J. Colley ... [et al.], Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 5, 1990-February 17,1991.

Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: 45 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. England without and within / by Richard Grant White.

Creator:: White, Richard Grant, 1821–1885
Date:: 1883
Physical Description:: xii, 601 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. The call of England, by H.V. Morton.

Creator:: Morton, H. V. (Henry Vollam), 1892–1979
Date:: [1935]
Physical Description:: xi, 206 p. illus. (part col.) 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. The romance of a Tudor House; restoration and the discovery of its hidden treasures, with someaccount of the time in which it was built, by Col. J.C.B. Statham ...

Creator:: Statham, John Charles Baron, 1872–
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xiii, 207 p. front., plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. The Blecheley diary of the Rev. William Cole ... 1765-67; edited from the original ms. in the British museum by Francis Griffin Stokes ... with an introduction by Helen Waddell.

Creator:: Cole, William, 1714–1782
Date:: 1931
Physical Description:: lx, 392 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, genealogical table, map, plan ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

14. Moated houses, by W. Outram Tristram; illustrated by Herbert Railton, with seventy-seven illustrations.

Creator:: Tristam, W. Outram (William Outram)
Date:: 1910]
Physical Description:: xi, 402 p. incl. 51 pl. front., 24pl. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. Social life in England, 1750-1850 / by F. J. Foakes Jackson.

Creator:: Foakes-Jackson, F. J. (Frederick John), 1855–1941
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: ix, 338 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. The Georgian country house : architecture, landscape and society / Dana Arnold ; with contributions from Tim Clayton ... [et al.]

Creator:: Arnold, Dana
Date:: c1998
Physical Description:: xiv, 210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Shardeloes papers of the 17th & 18th centuries.

Creator:: Eland, G
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: xii, 142 p. illus., geneal. table. 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. Woodforde; passages from the five volumes of The diary of a country parson, 1758-1802 [by] the Reverend James Woodforde; selected and edited by John Beresford.

Creator:: Woodforde, James, 1740–1803
Date:: 1935
Physical Description:: xix, [1], 534 p., 1 . front., plates, ports., fold. map, facsim., fold. geneal tab. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Death in England : an illustrated history / edited by Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings.

Date:: c1999
Physical Description:: xiv, [290] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Drawings for a tour in a post chaise. With an introd. and notes by Robert R. Wark.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
Date:: 1964, c1963
Physical Description:: xiii, 150 p. illus. (part col.) maps. 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Dressing the elite : clothes in early modern England / Susan Vincent.

Creator:: Vincent, Susan
Date:: 2003
Physical Description:: xiv, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

Creator:: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina), 1865–1965
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: xvi, 366 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Passages from the diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon. A.D. 1756-1808, ed. by Emily J. Climenson ...

Creator:: Powys, Caroline Girle, 1738–1817
Date:: 1899
Physical Description:: x, 399 p. front. (port.) 2 fold. geneal. tab. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Shakespeare's England; an account of the life & manners of his age.

Date:: 1917
Physical Description:: 2 v. fronts., illus., plates, ports., maps, facsims. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

25. Life in Regency England.

Creator:: White, Reginald James
Date:: [1963]
Physical Description:: xvi, 176 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

26. English country life in the eighteenth century / by Rosamond Bayne-Powell.

Creator:: Bayne-Powell, Rosamond, 1879–
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: xiii, 319 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

27. In search of England, by H. V. Morton.

Creator:: Morton, H. V. (Henry Vollam), 1892–1979
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: 317 p. illus. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

28. The end of an English royal marriage : George IV and the trial of Queen Caroline for adulterous intercourse : an exhibition from the collections of William H. Helfand and Jack Gumpert Wasserman, January 22-March 21, 1997, Grolier Club, New York.

Date:: 1997
Physical Description:: 44 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

29. Familiar letters on important occasions. With an introd. by Brian W. Downs.

Creator:: Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: xi, 252 p. facsim. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

30. Coaching days & ways / E.D. Cuming ; with ill. by G. Denholm Armour.

Creator:: Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862–1941
Date:: [1900?]
Physical Description:: 62 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.) ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

31. The English country house : an art and a way of life / Olive Cook ; photos. by A. F. Kersting.

Creator:: Cook, Olive
Date:: 1974
Physical Description:: 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

32. The Jack-in-the-Green : a May Day custom / Roy Judge.

Creator:: Judge, Roy
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: x, 200 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

33. English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art.

Creator:: Davies, Randall, 1866–1946
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: x, 78 p. col. front., 31 pl. (3 col.) 27 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

34. English literature and society in the eighteenth century / by Leslie Stephen.

Creator:: Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832–1904
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: vi p., 224 p. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

35. Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages, by P.H. Ditchfield. With forty illus. and plans.

Creator:: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854–1930
Date:: [1921]
Physical Description:: xiv, 255 p. illus. 20 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

36. The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 / Gladys Scott Thomson M.A., F.S.A., Somerville College Oxford.

Creator:: Thomson, Gladys Scott
Date:: [1940]
Physical Description:: 384 pages : frontispiece, portraits, plans, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

37. Crown pictorial : art and the British monarchy : exhibition labels / Linda J. Colley ... [et al.].

Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: [122] leaves ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

38. Life in the English country cottage / Adrian Tinniswood.

Creator:: Tinniswood, Adrian
Date:: 1995
Physical Description:: 216 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), map, plans ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

39. The English gentleman : images and ideals in literature and society / David Castronovo.

Creator:: Castronovo, David
Date:: 1987
Physical Description:: x, 171 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

40. Society in the country house, by T.H.S. Escott ...

Creator:: Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet), 1844–1924
Date:: 1907
Physical Description:: 511, [1] p. front. (ports.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

41. The Berry papers : being the correspondence hitherto unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852) / By Lewis Melville with numerous illustrations.

Creator:: Berry, Mary, 1763–1852
Date:: MCMXIV [1914]
Physical Description:: xviii, 448 pages, 27 leaves of plates : portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

42. Among English hedgerows, written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson; with an introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie.

Creator:: Johnson, Clifton, 1865–1940
Date:: 1907 [c1899]
Physical Description:: 347 p. illus. 19 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

43. Carscapes : the motor car, architecture and landscape in England / Kathryn A Morrison, John Minnis.

Creator:: Morrison, Kathryn
Date:: c2012
Physical Description:: vii, 439 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

44. Lost country life / Dorothy Hartley.

Creator:: Hartley, Dorothy
Date:: c1979
Physical Description:: ix, 374 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

45. The girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderly). Recorded in letters of a hundred years ago: from 1776 to 1796. Edited by J. H. Adeane.

Creator:: Stanley, Maria Josepha Stanley, Baroness, 1771–1863
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: xviii, 420 p. front., ports. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

46. The English at the seaside.

Creator:: Marsden, Christopher
Date:: 1947
Physical Description:: 47 p. illus. (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

47. The Victorian village / David Souden.

Creator:: Souden, David
Date:: c1991
Physical Description:: 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

48. The reminiscences of Henry Angelo. Withan introd. by Lord Howard de Walden and notes and memoir by H. Lavers Smith. Illustrated with sixty-eight plates reproduced from originals in the collection of Joseph Grego.

Creator:: Angelo, Henry, 1756–1835
Date:: 1904
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

49. The English spa, 1560-1815 : a social history / Phyllis Hembry.

Creator:: Hembry, Phyllis M. (Phyllis May)
Date:: 1990
Physical Description:: xiv, 401 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

50. The country house : past, present, future / Mr David Cannadine and Jeremy Musson.

Creator:: Cannadine, David, 1950–
Date:: 2018
Physical Description:: 432 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

51. Hogarth / Mark Hallett.

Creator:: Hallett, Mark, 1965–
Date:: 2000
Physical Description:: 352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, facsims., ports. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

52. The search for a style : Country life and architecture, 1897-1935 / John Cornforth.

Creator:: Cornforth, John, 1937–
Date:: 1989, c1988
Physical Description:: 263 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

53. The compleat gentleman : five centuries of aristocratic life / Geoffrey Beard.

Creator:: Beard, Geoffrey, 1929–
Date:: [1992], c1993
Physical Description:: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

54. Life in Georgian Britain / Michael St. John Parker.

Creator:: Parker, Michael St. John
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: 28 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

55. This other Eden : seven great gardens and three hundred years of English history / Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal.

Creator:: Wulf, Andrea
Physical Description:: xvii, 414 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

56. Family background.

Creator:: Thomson, Gladys Scott
Date:: [1949]
Physical Description:: 255 p. ports. 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

57. The English squire and his sport / [by] Roger Longrigg.

Creator:: Longrigg, Roger, 1929–2000
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: 302 p. : ill., plan, ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

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3. The rural life of England. By William Howitt ...

5. The Faber book of diaries / edited by Simon Brett.

6. Verney letters of the eighteenth century from the mss. at Claydon House, edited by Margaret Maria Lady Verney ...

7. The old home in England, A.D. 1100 to 1830; a running commentary on the life of the times, the home and its furniture.

8. Georgian England : a survey of social life, trades, industries & art from 1700 to 1820 / by A.E. Richardson.

9. Crown pictorial : art and the British monarchy / Linda J. Colley ... [et al.], Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 5, 1990-February 17,1991.

10. England without and within / by Richard Grant White.

11. The call of England, by H.V. Morton.

12. The romance of a Tudor House; restoration and the discovery of its hidden treasures, with someaccount of the time in which it was built, by Col. J.C.B. Statham ...

13. The Blecheley diary of the Rev. William Cole ... 1765-67; edited from the original ms. in the British museum by Francis Griffin Stokes ... with an introduction by Helen Waddell.

14. Moated houses, by W. Outram Tristram; illustrated by Herbert Railton, with seventy-seven illustrations.

15. Social life in England, 1750-1850 / by F. J. Foakes Jackson.

16. The Georgian country house : architecture, landscape and society / Dana Arnold ; with contributions from Tim Clayton ... [et al.]

17. Shardeloes papers of the 17th & 18th centuries.

18. Woodforde; passages from the five volumes of The diary of a country parson, 1758-1802 [by] the Reverend James Woodforde; selected and edited by John Beresford.

19. Death in England : an illustrated history / edited by Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings.

20. Drawings for a tour in a post chaise. With an introd. and notes by Robert R. Wark.

21. Dressing the elite : clothes in early modern England / Susan Vincent.

22. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

23. Passages from the diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon. A.D. 1756-1808, ed. by Emily J. Climenson ...

24. Shakespeare's England; an account of the life & manners of his age.

25. Life in Regency England.

26. English country life in the eighteenth century / by Rosamond Bayne-Powell.

27. In search of England, by H. V. Morton.

28. The end of an English royal marriage : George IV and the trial of Queen Caroline for adulterous intercourse : an exhibition from the collections of William H. Helfand and Jack Gumpert Wasserman, January 22-March 21, 1997, Grolier Club, New York.

29. Familiar letters on important occasions. With an introd. by Brian W. Downs.

30. Coaching days & ways / E.D. Cuming ; with ill. by G. Denholm Armour.

31. The English country house : an art and a way of life / Olive Cook ; photos. by A. F. Kersting.

32. The Jack-in-the-Green : a May Day custom / Roy Judge.

33. English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art.

34. English literature and society in the eighteenth century / by Leslie Stephen.

35. Old village life; or, Glimpses of village life through all ages, by P.H. Ditchfield. With forty illus. and plans.

36. The Russells in Bloomsbury, 1669-1771 / Gladys Scott Thomson M.A., F.S.A., Somerville College Oxford.

37. Crown pictorial : art and the British monarchy : exhibition labels / Linda J. Colley ... [et al.].

38. Life in the English country cottage / Adrian Tinniswood.

39. The English gentleman : images and ideals in literature and society / David Castronovo.

40. Society in the country house, by T.H.S. Escott ...

41. The Berry papers : being the correspondence hitherto unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852) / By Lewis Melville with numerous illustrations.

42. Among English hedgerows, written and illustrated by Clifton Johnson; with an introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie.

43. Carscapes : the motor car, architecture and landscape in England / Kathryn A Morrison, John Minnis.

44. Lost country life / Dorothy Hartley.

45. The girlhood of Maria Josepha Holroyd (Lady Stanley of Alderly). Recorded in letters of a hundred years ago: from 1776 to 1796. Edited by J. H. Adeane.

46. The English at the seaside.

47. The Victorian village / David Souden.

48. The reminiscences of Henry Angelo. Withan introd. by Lord Howard de Walden and notes and memoir by H. Lavers Smith. Illustrated with sixty-eight plates reproduced from originals in the collection of Joseph Grego.

49. The English spa, 1560-1815 : a social history / Phyllis Hembry.

50. The country house : past, present, future / Mr David Cannadine and Jeremy Musson.

51. Hogarth / Mark Hallett.

52. The search for a style : Country life and architecture, 1897-1935 / John Cornforth.

53. The compleat gentleman : five centuries of aristocratic life / Geoffrey Beard.

54. Life in Georgian Britain / Michael St. John Parker.

55. This other Eden : seven great gardens and three hundred years of English history / Andrea Wulf and Emma Gieben-Gamal.

56. Family background.

57. The English squire and his sport / [by] Roger Longrigg.