Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery

Beschreibung

A comprehensive manual on housekeeping, a bestselling work by Marion Harland. A brilliant guide to housekeeping in America, being a comprehensive manual of practical housewifery.This cookbook and domestic guide was an immense success, selling over one million copies over several editions.By Marion Harland, the pen-name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a prolific American author who published both fiction and non-fiction.Eight leaves of blank lined pages are bound to the rear for notes.Four pages of adverts to the rear.Bookplate of Martin & Pamela Finch to the recto of the front endpaper. The Finch couple founded Matthew Finch Design Consultants Limited, a graphics group which specialised in in design for print and publishing. They opened an antiquarian bookshop, Wadard Books, in 2001. Rebound in a cloth binding, with renewed endpapers. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and clean, with a few scattered spots and handling marks. Near Fine.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery

Verlag

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1889

Einband

Cloth

Illustrator

None

Zustand

Near Fine

Buchtyp

book

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• Social Sciences