Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery

Marion Harland; [Mary Virginia Terhune]

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1889

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 967P18

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Common Sense in the Household, a Manual of Practical Housewifery
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 1889
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: None
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: book
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