Swinstead Rev Howard (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No dustwrapper, some fading to the blue paper-covered boards, more so at the back, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. A short account of the English Church (Engelska kyrkan) of St Peter and St Sigfrid in Stockholm. The author was Anglican Chaplain there between 1912 and 1919. 67pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A late nineteenth century analysis of the religious practices of Romani Gypsy populations, illustrated with contemporary photographs. The second edition, published the year after the first, of this late Victorian era study of Gypsies and Travelling People, with a particular emphasis on their religious practices. Illustrated with frequent contemporary photographs of the peoples in question.The work of Reverend John Howard Swinstead, chapters include 'Should Fairs be Reorganized or Abolished?', 'The Quack Orator' and 'Superstitions'.Prospective readers may wish to note that the tone of this work varies between the condescending and prejudicial, with the introduction from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury in his introduction expressing concern that the subject matter will 'contribute less that their proper share to the honour and credit of the nation in the times that are coming'With a four page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light mark to front board, with shelf wear to spine tail. Otherwise, externally smart. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean, with page perimeters browning due to paper type, as is common with this work. Very Good Indeed. book.

Gardner, Darton & Co. London. 1897. Second Edition. Hardback. No DW. Illustrated. Green pictorial cloth, red lettering. Pages browned, prelims a little soiled and foxed, inner hinge cracked but contents sound.

Condition: Very good. 1897, London, Gardner, Darton & Co., second edition, ppxviii + 233 + (iv), black and white illustrations, cream cloth, gilt lettering. Although the work is unashamedly of the Christian mission nature, few people were mixing with, and being accepted by, Gypsies in the nineteenth century, and this remains a fascinating record of the families living and travelling in and around Wiltshire and Dorset.