Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery

Marion Harland; [Mary Virginia Terhune]

Edité par Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889

A propos de cet article

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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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery
• Éditeur: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Date de parution: 1889
• Reliure: Cloth
• Illustrateur: None
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Type de livre: book
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Social Sciences