Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources

xix, 474, 32 pp. Maroon cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Fold-out facsimile of March 11, 1702 issue of The Daily Courant, 84 illustrations reproduced from contemporary prints. A social history of Great Britain in the early 18th century, featuring chapters on education, marriage, funerary rites, household concerns, fashion, superstition, food, gambling, cosmetics, tobacco, coffee-houses and taverns, clubs, sports, dramatic works, art, science, literature and printing, medicine, spas, religion, law, the army and navy, crime, prisons, etc.