Ladies’ Indispensable Assistant...
NY: 128 Nassau-Street, 1853. Item #43517
8vo.; brown blind-stamped boards with gilt, hardcover; 138 pages; Title continues: “Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife. Containing more information for the price than any other work upon the subject. Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen, ladies' toilette table, directions for managing canary birds, also, safe directions for the management of children; Instruction for Ladies under various circumstances; a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine. Thus enabling each person to become his or her own physician. to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published; many of these recipes are entirely new and should be in the possession of every person in the land.”; internally foxed and sunned edgeworn with spine ends and corners beginning to fray else very good.
Price: $75.00