Description
An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected With Housekeeping: As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture with the Nature of Their Materials; Duties of Servants; a General Account of the Animals and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Bread; the Chemical Nature and the Preparation of all Kinds of Fermented Liquors used as beverage; Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilette; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel-Carriages; Preservation of Health; Domestic Medicine, &c. &c. By T. Webster and Mrs. Parkes, Edited by D.M. Reese, A.M., M.D. Illustrated with nearly One Thousand Engravings, Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1848, 1238 pp, blind stamped full leather, 9.5 x 6.25”, thick 8vo. In as-is condition. Well-loved. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing along edges and corners. Red rot present at edges with minor scuffing at surface. Spine slightly abraded with creasing and light scuffing. Head and tail chipped slightly with 1” crack at front joint. Boards scuffed overall. All edges marbled, albeit faded. Marbled end papers lightly toned, free of ownership. Heavy foxing to end papers with irregular toning. Dark dampness staining persists throughout the first 115 pages at top and bottom margins. Consistent heavier foxing throughout entire text block. Free of known marginalia. Rippling present. Binding intact. A reading copy. Please see photos. An immensely detailed encyclopaedia guiding the reader on the proper running of a Victorian household.Offering a fascinating insight into the Victorian home, written at a time when such manuals were essential for every home and housekeeper. Later American edition. With topics including building, heating and lighting a house, furnishings, food, wine, bread making, medicine and much more. Includes detailed illustrations of decorative objects for the home. COLM1848BFGX-923
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