The Edwardian Scrapbook

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Summary: This is a beautiful book!
Review: "The Edwardian Scrapbook" is simply wonderful. You can get a true sense of Britain through pages of royal souvenirs, the latest inventions for the household, food products, advertisements, sweets, toiletry items, tobacco, the Women's Social and Political Union, women's fashion, newspapers, magazines, comics, books, toys, postcards, traveling, motor cars, airplanes, table tennis, diabolo, roller skating, theatre, and international sports. The pictures are wonderful and this book goes great along with "The Victorian Scrapbook." I recommend.

Rating:
Summary: This is a beautiful book!
Review: "The Edwardian Scrapbook" is simply wonderful. You can get a true sense of Britain through pages of royal souvenirs, the latest inventions for the household, food products, advertisements, sweets, toiletry items, tobacco, the Women's Social and Political Union, women's fashion, newspapers, magazines, comics, books, toys, postcards, traveling, motor cars, airplanes, table tennis, diabolo, roller skating, theatre, and international sports. The pictures are wonderful and this book goes great along with "The Victorian Scrapbook." I recommend.

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Summary: Edwardian Britain, just picture it.
Review: This is Robert Opie's seventh unique style scrapbook. The very simple formula works yet again, this time he has collected 1300 printed items from his packaging museum all relating to everyday life in Britain from 1900 to 1910.

Like the previous books, the material is laid out as a still-life and then photographed. If you want to see what printed items Mr and Mrs Average had in their homes it is all included here, food packets, comics, newspapers, magazines, postcards, candy bars, boxes of toys and more.

If I have a criticism it is that there are eight pages that have only one item, I would have preferred maybe four of these to be crammed with items like the other pages.

Social historians and graphic designers, amongst others, will enjoy looking through this book and with the other titles in the series it is building up into a tremendous visual resource of everday British life.

Rating:
Summary: Edwardian Britain, just picture it.
Review: This is Robert Opie's seventh unique style scrapbook. The very simple formula works yet again, this time he has collected 1300 printed items from his packaging museum all relating to everyday life in Britain from 1900 to 1910.

Like the previous books, the material is laid out as a still-life and then photographed. If you want to see what printed items Mr and Mrs Average had in their homes it is all included here, food packets, comics, newspapers, magazines, postcards, candy bars, boxes of toys and more.

If I have a criticism it is that there are eight pages that have only one item, I would have preferred maybe four of these to be crammed with items like the other pages.

Social historians and graphic designers, amongst others, will enjoy looking through this book and with the other titles in the series it is building up into a tremendous visual resource of everday British life.