A Manual Of Domestic Economy; Suited To Families Spending £150 To £1500 Pounds A Year. Walsh, J. H. [Assisted In Various Departments By A Committee Of Ladies] Cookery

Title continues. Including Directions for the Management of the Nursery and Sick Room, and the Preparation and Administration of Domestic Remedies. Includes 14 colour plates (1 folding) depicting contemporary home furnishings and decoration, mushroom species and dining table layouts as well as 11 black and white plates of various diagrams. Organised into ten books: On the practice of economy; The house and its accessories; Furniture and furnishing; Domestic servants and their duties; The supplies of the house; On the maintenance of health by the proper cooking of good food; The nursery; Horses and carriages; Social duties of heads of families; The domestic treatment of disease. Inlcudes an index and eight page publisher's catalogue at the rear, pp. xii, 776, 8. Bound in green cloth, stamped black borders to front board, blindstamped to rear board, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers. octavo. Corners and spine bumped, foxing to tissue guards and neighbouring pages, occasional other instances but otherwise pages clean, two uncut leaves, binding strong, overall very good condition.