An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected With Housekeeping: As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture with the Nature of Their Materials; Duties of Servants; a General Account of the Animals and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Bread; the Chemical Nature and the Preparation of all Kinds of Fermented Liquors used as beverage; Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilette; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel-Carriages; Preservation of Health; Domestic Medicine, &c. &c.

Thomas Webster; Mrs. Parkes

Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1844

About this Item

A very scarce first edition domestic encyclopedia, an extensive Victorian publication on the effective running of a household. The scarce first edition.Illustrated with nearly one thousand woodcuts throughout.Sixteen pages of adverts to the front, dated February 1845, and thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated October 1846.An immensely detailed encyclopaedia guiding the reader on the proper running of a Victorian household.Offering a fascinating insight into the Victorian home, written at a time when such manuals were essential for every home and housekeeper. Divided into twenty-six books, with sections including ventilation, artificial illumination, the domestic residence, furniture, servants, food, beverages, bread, food preservation, the arrangement of a kitchen, recipes for English cookery, fabrics for clothing and furniture, the toilette, jewellery, horses, pets, and more.This was an immensely popular publication, being oft-reprinted in both the U.K. and U.S.By Thomas Webster, assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes. In a modern quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean, with some light handling marks and scattered spots. Near Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected With Housekeeping: As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture with the Nature of Their Materials; Duties of Servants; a General Account of the Animals and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Bread; the Chemical Nature and the...
• Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London
• Publication Date: 1844
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: Not Stated
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: book
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