Haslewood Books - Elizabethan Home

The Elizabethan Home discovered in two dialogues, by Claudius Hollyband and Peter Erondell. Edited by M. St. Clare Byrne. With illustrations from the Roxburgh Ballads. Demy 8vo, xiv, 95 pages, illustrations, 24m, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1925.

Set in Garamond and printed at the Westminster Press. One of 75 copies on English hand-made paper (this not numbered) from a total edition of 725 opies. Special binding of full vellum, spine titled in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt, green silt ties present but detached. A very good to fine copy. (Tucker 6)

'Hollyband and Erondell were two Huguenot refugees who earned their living by teaching French in London in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Of widespread popularity in its own day, their published work has since suffered three centuries of undeserved neglect. While there are many books which give us an insight into the life of the the theatres and taverns, and the underworld of Elizabethan London, we get singularly few glimpses into the ordinary life of the Elizabethan home.' (Prospectus 1925)