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THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMAN'S LOT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
Written by Antonia Fraser.
Stock no. 1831526
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book describes a woman's lot in 17th-century England in an age when women had no rights or independence, when effective contraception was unknown and when marriage and childbirth dominated their lives. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w plates. xvi and 544 pages including index. ISBN: 0297783815. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Text block lightly browned with some minor foxing. Foxing to verso of free front endpapers else contents clean. Brown pictorial dustwrapper is sunned/faded to spine and narrow band of discolouration to horizontal edges.

THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR
Written by Josephine Tey; Antonia Fraser. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth.
Stock no. 1830360
Published by Folio Society. 2001. Very good condition.

Introduction by Antonia Fraser. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 254 pages. Second printing in the same year as the first printing. A few marks to boards. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few marks and scuffs.