Scottish Lifestyle 300 Years Ago - New Light on Edinburgh and Border Families

This book is based very largely on three household account books kept by Grisell, wife of Sir Patrick Home , her daughter Grisell Baillie and Magdalen Nicholson, a Roxburghshire lady. Only four such account books kept by women in the 17th century have survived in the whole of Britain so the book gives a unique insight into the running of a house at that time.

It describes what the people ate, what everything cost, how they got from place to place, what they wore, what illnesses they had and how they were treated, how marriages were arranged, what weddings and funerals were like, their games and hobbies, the songs they sang, the books and newspapers that they read, their gardens, their superstitions, indeed eveyrthing that was talked about in the houses, the ale-houses and the coffee-houses of Edinburgh and the borders,

An excellent edition with good clean original  price-clipped dustcover. Inside the pages have age-realted tanning that remain bright and clean throughout.

Please check the images associated with this Book to gain a clear insight into the book's condition and if you require further details please send an email enquiry.