The Servants’ Hall by Merlin Waterson

The Servants’ Hall

A “Downstairs” History of a British Country House

by Merlin Waterson

Pantheon Books, Random House 1980, [First Edition], ISBN 039450903X, black and white photographic plates, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, stamp to bottom foredge, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing, bumping, chipping and discolouration (see photographs)

“From the servants’ hall we can witness the complex functioning of an unusual, closely knit – and almost utterly vanished – world: a community composed of housekeepers, kitchen maids, stableboys, nannies, tutors, woodsmen, and more.  To give us back that vantage and open up to us that world, Merlin Waterson has turned a uniquely vivid set of human records into an engaging picture of 250 years of daily life “below stairs” in a country squire’s household.”