Chambers'S Miscellany Of Useful And Entertaining Tracts (Volume I-Ii)
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
22.03.2021
Herausgeber
William ChambersVerlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
526
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/3,1 cm
Gewicht
845 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5450-023-7
Step into Victorian Britain at street level: bright facts, oddities, hard-won advice, and stories that travelled by post and penny. A whole world in print. Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts gathers short, readable pieces for the curious household, moving easily from popular science articles and practical home instruction to history and biography sketches, all in a brisk penny magazine style. This victorian miscellany anthology was shaped by William Chambers of Edinburgh, whose imprint helped define nineteenth-century Scottish publishing and the era's hunger for self-education. Presented as a two-volume essay collection, it shows how editors balanced instruction with entertainment, turning learning into habit rather than homework. These classic periodical reprints carry the sound of the parlour lecture and the workshop talk: ideas made plain, then made useful. Read for a few minutes or for an evening's browse, and you will find viewpoints on daily life alongside broader horizons, the sort of mixed fare that later Victorian Britain periodicals refined and that Household Words readers recognised at once. For collectors, it is a handsome window onto how knowledge circulated before mass schooling was secure; for students of British culture it remains a dependable victorian studies primary source, close to what ordinary readers actually bought and shared. It suits quick dipping-in and careful rereading. A keepsake for shelves, a companion for journeys. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.
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