Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Maxine Berg

Book Overview

Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272085
• ISBN13: 9780199272082
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"