The Water Closet: A New History

First edition, first impression.142pp, with black and white plate illustrations and a few line drawings in text.  Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine.  8vo.  Cloth slightly rounded on corners and spine ends.  Hint of toning to text block edges.  Small bookseller’s ticket (from Henry Sotheran on Sackville Street) on the front paste down else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original shelf worn and edge-rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, with a thin strip of discolouration along the rear lower edge.  

A history of the humble toilet, or water closet (wc) examining its development, the materials used, manufacturing, decorations and nomenclature, the water closet in country houses and hotels, with a concluding chapter which looks towards the future.