A Writer of Historical Romances
Joan Vincent

Reference Books Part 1

The section contains reference books on: Almanac, Animal, Archeology, Banks/Money, Calenders, Carpentry, Crafts, Clocks, Education, Farming, Fortune Telling, Insects, Inventions, Jewelry, Law, Leather, Manufacturing/Labourers, and Plants.

Almanac

Time's Telescope for 1816 A complete Guide to the Almanack: Containing an explanation of Saints' Days and Holidays with illustrations of British History and Antiquities; Notices of Obsolete Rites and Customs, Sketches of Comparative Chronology and an account of the Fasts and Festivals of the Jews; Astronomical Occurences, Astronomy, Naturalist's Diary British Forest Tree, Elements of Botany 1816 na
Franklin, Benjamin Poor Richard's Almanac 1982 0517362392

Animal

American Kennel Club Complete Dog Book 1975 0876054610
Bruun, Bertel Birds of Europe 1970 070086044
Butler, Charles Dog Fancier's Companion 1819 na
Darling, F Fraser 52 Wild life of Britain (Britain in Pictures) 1947 na
Gibson, Robin Face in the Corner Animals in Portraits from the Collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The 1998 1855142309
Hart-Davis, Duff Fauna Britannica The Practical Guide to Wild & Domestic Creatures of Britain 2002 0297825321
Laik, Judith Regency Dogs 2005 na
Leclerc, Georges-Louis Compte de Buffon editor Fiorella Congedo Birds adapted from Histoire naturelle 2011 9780062039569

Archeology

Pollard, Justin Story of Archaeology in 50 great discoveries, The 2007 101847240119

Banking and Money

Acres, W. Marston The Bank of England from Within 1694-1900 2 Volumes Complete 1931 na
Barry Supple Royal Exchange Assurance: History of British Insurance, 1720-1970 1970 521072395
Ferguson, Niall House of Rothschild Monies, Profits 1798-1848 1998 0140240845
Doty, Richard Soho Mint, The & the Industrialization of Money 1998 1902040031
Davidoff, Leonora Hall, Catherine Family Fortunes Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 1987 na
Wallace-Kowaleski, Elizabeth Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, & Business in the 18th Century 1997 0231105797

Calendars

Bear, Magdalen Days, Months, & Years A perpetual calender for the past, present, and future 1996 0906212715
Bear, Magdalen Days, Months, & Years A perpetual calender for the past, present, and future 1996 0906212715

Carpentry

Mercer, Henry C 1975 Ancient Carpenter's Tools Illus and Explained 5th Ed (1975) 2000 0486409589

Crafts

Girtin, Thomas Nothing but the Best The Traditions of English Craftsmen from Edwardian to Elizabethan 1960 LLC6011696
Seymour, John Forgotten Household Crafts A Portrait of the Way We Once Lived 1914 0394558308

Clocks

de Carle, Donald Watch and Clock Encyclopedia 1977 0517246619

Education

Gardner, Brian Public Schools 1973 241023378
Hans, Nicholas New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century 1951 na
Hughes, Kathryn Victorian Governess, The 1993 1852850027
Hussey, Christopher Eton College (1922) 1940 na
Roberts, S. C. 110 British Universities (Britain in Pictures Series) 1947 na

Farming

Darley, Gillian National Trust Book of the Farm, The 1981 297780069
Dumas, Philippe Farm, A Reflections of Yesteryear 1997 1568461690
Ernle, Lord English Farming Past and Present (1912) 1961 na
Hughes, Anne Diary of a Farmer's Wife 1796-1797 1981 na
Martins, Susanna Wade Coke of Norfolk 1754-1842 2009 9781843835318
Martins, Susanna Wade Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes Rurtal Britain 1720 to 1870 2004 953863093
Martins, Susanna Wade Great Estate at Work, A The Holkham estate and its inhabitants in the nineteenth century 1980 9780521080842
Skilton, C. P. 120 British Windmills and Watermills (Britain in Pictures Series) 1947 na
Tate, W E Enclosure Movement, The The Evolution of the English Village Community and the Techniques of the Agricultural Evolution 1967 LLC6723645
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford Countryside Companion, The 1979 0091393809
Warren, C Henry English Cottages and Farm-Houses 1948 na

Fortune Telling

Bright, J S Dictionary of Palmistry 1958 na
Mann, A T Tarot, An Introductory Guide to Unlocking the Secrets of Tarot 1999 1862042128
Coughlan, Tim Now Shoon the Romano Gillie: Traditional Verse in the High and Low Speech of the Gypsies of Britain 2001 9780708314982

Holidays

Hubert, Maria Jane Austen's Christmas 2nd entry 1980 9780750934725
National Gallery of Art Renaissance Christmas, A 1991 0821218751
Scott, Regina Marissa Doyle Christmas in England (Beau Monde Class) 2009 na

Insects

Evans, A V; Bellamy, C L Inordinate Fondness for Beetles 1996 520223233
Joy, Norman British Beetles Their Homes and Habits including chapters on How to Identify, Collect, and Study 1946 na
Preston-Matham, Ken Bugs, Beetles, Spiders, Snakes: Complete Identifier 2004 785818529
Taylor, Geoffrey Insect Life in Britain Britain in Pictures 1946 na
Temple, Vere British butterflies (Britain in pictures 125) 1949 na

Invention

Aspin, Chris Water-Spinners, The A new look at the early cotton trade 2003 906881137
Stein, Ralph Great Inventions, The 1976 0872234444

Jewelry

Dawes, Ginny Redinton w/ Ollivia Collings Georgian Jewellery 1714-1830 2010 9781851495399
Lanllier, Jean & Pini Marie-Anne Five Centuries of Jewelry in the West 1983 0517672405

Law

Before Scotland Yard 2005 na
Andrew, D & McGowen R Perreaus & Mrs. Rudd Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century London 2001 0520220625
Ashley, Mike (editor) Royal Whodunnits 1999 0786706341
Bentley, David English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century 1998 185285135X
Borowitz, Albert Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case, The Dark Mirror of Regency England 1987 807113719
Borowitz, Albert Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case, The Dark Mirror of Regency England 1987 807113719
Colquhoun, Patrick Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames, A (1800) 1969 0875850413
Cook, Elizabeth Damnation of John Donellan, The : A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England 2012 9780802779960
Cornwell, Bernard Gallows Thief (a novel) 2002 0060032739
De la Torre, Lillian Villany Detected Being a Collection of True Crimes … 1660-1800 1947 na
Dillon, Patrick Gin, The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva 2002 1932112006
Duman, Daniel English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century 1983 0856644684
Evans, Colin Father of Forensics, The The Groundbreaking Cases of Bernard Spilsbury, and the Beginnings of Modern CSI 2006 425210073
Ferguson, Jo Ann Murder and Mayhen in Regency England (Beau Monde Class) 2009 na
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office: With an Account of the Magistrates, Runners, and Police 2011 9781113535085
Franklin, Charles World Famous Trials ; 1966 LLC6622033
Gatrell, V A Hanging Tree, The Execution and the English People 1770-1868 1994 0198204132
Griffiths, Major Arthur In Old French Prisons 1992 0880297913
Grovier, Kelly The Gaol: the Story of Newgate-London's Most Notorious Prison 2008 9780719561320
Houpt, Simon Museum of the Missing A History of Art Theft 2006 1402728298
Linnane, Fergus London's Underworld Three Centuries of Vice and Crime 2004 1861057423
James, P D, And Critchley, T A Athomas Alan Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811, The 1971 978089296152X
Macfarlane, M & A Scottish Radicals Tried & Transported to Australia for Treason in 1820 1981 0907590004
Moore, Lucy editor Con Men and Cutpurses Scenes of Hogarthian Underworld 2000 0141003464
Oldham, James edited Mansfield Manuscripts on the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century in 2 Volumes 1992 0807820520
Ohlgren, Thomas H (editor) Medieval Outlaws 1998 0750918624
Palmer, Francis Beaufort Peerage law in England ; a practical treatise for lawyers and laymen, with an appendix of peerage charters and letters patent (1907) 2010 9781240194278
Roberts, Harry British Rebels and Reformers Britain in Pictures 1942 na
Rumbelow, Donald Triple Tree, The - Newgate, Tyburn and Old Bailey 1982 0245538771
Somerset Affair of the Poisons, The Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV 2003 0312330170
Sykes, Christopher Black Sheep 1982 0701125489

Leather

Waterer, John Leather and Craftsmanship 1950 na

Manufacturing and Laborers

Berg, Maxine Age of Manufactures 1700-1820, The 1985
0389205842
Corfield, Penelope J  Power and the Professions 1700-1850 1995
0415097568
Hammond, J L & Barbara Town Labourer The New Civilization 1760-1832, The  1968
na
Hammond, J. L. And Barbara Hammond  The Labourer, 1760-1832 1995
9780750909655
Heal, Ambrose London Tradesmen's Cards of the XVIII Century An Account of the Origin and Use 1968
LLC6615175
Malcolmson, Patricia E English Laundresses A Social History 1850-1930 1986
0252012933
Sale, Kirkpatrick Rebels Against the Future  The Ludites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution 1995
Thompson, E P Making of the English Working Class, The 1966
0394703227
Wedgewood, Barbara & Hensleigh Wedgewood Circle 1730-1897 1980
0289708923

Plants

Brookshaw, George Pomona Britannica The Complete Plates 2002 3822814636
Gilmour, John British Botanists Britain in Pictures 1946 na
Martin, Laura C Garden Flower Folklore 1987 0871067668