HOUSEKEEPERS' and MOTHERS' MANUAL
Richmond, VA: Everett Waddey Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 604 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. The author, speaking of the need for educating the women of her day, notes: "...she is abundantly able to train and instruct all servants in her employ, so that there will be little friction in the domestic machinery; and if she does her own work, as many housewives do, either from choice or necessity, when suddenly left without a cook, then she finds an able and effectual ally in her cookery book and the information it affords her." Numerous recipes, hygiene advice, invalid and infant cookery, laundry hints, simple remedies, and much more. Interior pristine. Boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate states: This book is a gift from THE SONTHEIMER FOUNDATION Greenwich, Connecticut. [BROWN 4285] [BITTING 408]. Blue cloth covered boards, title in gilt. Very good. Item #3811
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