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The Book of the Household; or Family Dictionary of Everything Connected with Housekeeping and Domestic Medicine - 2 Volumes.

London: The London Printing and Publishing Co., n.d. ca 1860. First edition. Leather Bound with gilded tooling on covers and binding, marbled endpapers. Octavo, pp. 576 (Vol I), 576 (Vol II), illustrated with steel engravings. Very Good. Item #1638

A wonderful slice of life/snapshot of mid nineteenth century domestic life. Along with the hundreds of illustrations, the volumes contain dozens of engraved plates (many from original daguerrotypes) of period interiors and ceramics, etc. All in all a fascinating set.

Price: $150.00