Ladies' Indispensable Assistant. Being a Companion for the Sister, Mother, and Wife. Containing More Information for the Price than Any Other Work Upon the Subject. Here are the Very Best Directions for the Behavior and Etiquette of Ladies and Gentlemen, Ladies' Toilette Table, Directions for Managing Canary Birds; Also, Safe Directions for the Management of Children; Instructions for Ladies Under Various Circumstances; A Great Variety of Valuable Recipes, Forming a Complete System of Family Medicine. Thus Enabling Each Person to Become His or Her Own Physician: To Which is Added One of the Best Systems of Cookery Ever Published; Many of These Recipes are Entirely New and Should Be in the Possession of Every Person in the Land
New York: (S.n.), 1851. First Edition thus. Wood engraving. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. Mixed pagination.
Fascinating collection of household information from the mid-19th century. Everything from home remedies and medicinal plants, from child care to a recipe for Christmas pudding, from sewing to etiquette.
This volume seems to be comprised of sheets from a few other works but has its own title page and the page numbers in the alphabetized Contents section at front accord with the variously paginated text.
Near fine. Bound in dark brown cloth over boards with blind-stamped border rules and ornamentation to both boards, gilt-stamped device on upper board, gilt-stamped titles and ornamentation to spine. Some minor scattered toning inside, a few splits to cloth along joints, shallow chipping along head and heel of spine. Hinges sound.
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