8vo. 424pp. With half-title, a chromolithograph frontispiece and 25 further lithographed plates. Finely bound by Asprey of London (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in contemporary gilt-tooled brown half-morocco, brown cloth boards, with thematic devices within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, very slight chipping to edges. Internally clean & crisp.

The last of several popular history books on English traditions and customs produced by English teacher and prolific non-fiction author Frederick William Hackwood (1851 – 1926) for publisher T. Fisher Unwin in the early Twentieth Century. Good Cheer concerns the history of England's culinary etiquette, consisting of numerous essays on banquet culture, traditional festivals, and even the introduction of cutlery, with topical time-periods ranging from Roman Britain through to the Tudors and the recent Victorian era.