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The Macmillan Company, 1911. Hardcover, xi, 298 pp.; 20 cm; illustrated with frontispiece and 11 black-and-white photographic plates by S. J. Beckett and Wilse; sheets printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull and Spears.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition, no dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt Celtic knotwork wreath and title on front cover, gilt lettering and rose panels on spine; nicking and chipping to cloth at head and foot of spine and at corner tips, small hole in cloth at upper spine panel, some bumping to edges. Mild to moderate shelf and edge wear, with some staining to fore edge, toning and fading to spine, and mild soiling to covers. Binding tight. Endpapers toned with foxing; free endpapers heavily toned. Pages toned, with heavier toning and foxing to first and last few leaves and occasional spotting throughout; small pencil dashes beside some entries in index and pencil notation on rear pastedown; otherwise unmarked. An English observer's account of everyday domestic life in Norway in the years just after the 1905 separation from Sweden. Daniels moves from the household of the Christiania merchant (the Grosserer) through dinner parties, flat life, schooling, women, food, servants, hotels and amusements to the peasant farmhouse and a day on a better-class farm, with asides on drink, crime, charities and the Emmaus institute for inebriates. The index lists Amundsen, Bjornson, Grieg, Hamsun, Ibsen and King Haakon VII. The photographs include a folk school classroom, haymaking on a mountain farm, a ski jumper, the Fantoft stave church near Bergen (destroyed by arson in 1992 and since rebuilt), an "Eagle's Nest" dwelling at Geiranger with children tethered for safety, the May 17 children's procession in Christiania, and Telemark farm interiors. American issue of the Methuen edition published the same year in London. Contents: Author's Note; The Grosserer; A Dinner Party; Home Life in Flats; Children, and their Education; Norwegian Women; Food; Food (continued); Mistress and Maid; Hotels and Restaurants; Les Norvegiens s'amusent; In the Towns; Out of Doors; Darker Norway; The Peasant and his Home; A Day on a Better-Class Farm; A Day on a Better-Class Farm (continued); Index.