(Paperback)
By: Eve Eckstein
ISBN: 9780747801825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Fiona Shoop
ISBN: 9781845284565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Wann
ISBN: 9780899304922
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Eric Monk
ISBN: 9780747804222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The oldest keys known to exist date from around 4,000 BC in Ancient Egypt. These were simple wooden cylinders that were part of a mechanism to secure doors. By the time of the Roman Empire, metal keys were in common usage and had begun to adopt the recognizable pattern of keys today. This book tells the story of the key.
(Paperback)
By: Marta Garrett
ISBN: 9781667860848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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Volume 3 follows the movement to more creative sosaku kokeshi (starting around 1970). It also includes modern or kindai kokeshi and other kokeshi-related items.
(Paperback)
By: Marta Garrett
ISBN: 9781667860770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Pamela Sambrook
ISBN: 9780852636480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Illustrates the simple, rare, but often extremely beautiful traditional laundry aids - the glass calendars, washing bats, mangle boards and goffering stacks. This book also provides examples of the multitude of flat, box, solid fuel, spirit, gas and electric irons, washing machines and wringers.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Williams
ISBN: 9780747805960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Joanna Greenlaw
ISBN: 9780747804178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Bruce Helander
ISBN: 9781667833477
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Roger Marriott
ISBN: 9780747810568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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It has been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy became the basis of perhaps the most successful British toy business of the twentieth century.
(Paperback)
By: Susan Tobier Rogove
ISBN: 9781483586465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Eleanor Johnson
ISBN: 9780747803997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As manufactured goods became more easily available, ladies developed crafts such as needlework, to occupy their increased leisure time. This book illustrates and describes over 200 items used by Victorian and Edwardian ladies in their needlecrafts. It includes needlecases, scissors, tape-measures, thread waxers, pincushions and thimble.
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By: Kay N. Sanecki
ISBN: 9780852638699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Some of the oldest implements in the world are those that have been used by land cultivation. Many garden tools are universal in use, like the rake, scythe, slasher, spade and saw, and much estate management of the past, before mechanization, was dependent upon them.
(Paperback)
By: Ben Bergonzi
ISBN: 9780747801047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces the history and evolution of the gramophone, the intricacies of recording sound on discs or cylinders and the complex early development of the record industry. This book is suitable for music enthusiasts.
(Paperback)
By: David Warren
ISBN: 9780747802570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Hill
ISBN: 9780747806974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the development of the radio from the late Victorian era until the late 1960s, including various photographs.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Emmerson
ISBN: 9780852637814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ranging from its demonstration to Queen Victoria in 1878, through the bake light models of the 1920s and '30s to the chic plastic designs of the 1970s and '80s, this title traces the evolution of the humble telephone over more than a century.
(Paperback)
By: Jeff Hopewell
ISBN: 9780747804000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Describes and illustrates different varieties of lace and the tools used in making it.
(Paperback)
By: Kristen Naylor
ISBN: 9781543943788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Will Farmer
ISBN: 9780747808350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Poole Pottery is a great British institution, and for more than 130 years has been in the very first rank of producers of tiles, mosaic flooring and advertising panels - as well as the pottery that remains its most famous and collectible product. This book gives a detailed account of this unique and distinctively British company.
(Paperback)
By: Will Farmer
ISBN: 9780747810551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From gift shop designs for the holiday village in north Wales, Portmeirion pottery evolved to a global business, thanks in large part to the design flair of Susan Williams-Ellis. This title deals with this topic.
(Paperback)
By: Carol Hayes
ISBN: 9780747810438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions".
(Paperback)
By: Hugh Rock
ISBN: 9780747806561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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