The practical housekeeper ; a cyclopædia of domestic enconomy ... comprising five thousand practical receipts and maxims. Illustrated with five hundred wood engravings / Edited by Mrs. Ellet ...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Stringer and Townsend,
1857.
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| Ownership and Custodial History: |
Illustrated bookplate of Claudia Q. Murphy adhered to front paste-down. Below this, a second illustrated bookplate (circa 1920s?) depicting a man looking through books at a bookseller's table. Adhered next to this is a printed poem requesting return to owner after use. Unread ink signature underneath the bookplates on front paste-down. Next to this, a second ink signature in blue: "Arnold(?) Shi...(?)". Library acquisition note in pencil on dedication page: "LD 25731, 5/12/60, Friends". Manuscript recipe in pencil for oysters on page 211. Newspaper article titled "Choice of food" about determining the freshness of meat adhered to verso of page 599. |
| Local Note: |
MSU: Feeding America: Historic American Cookbook Project.
MSU: Conservation 2005 Etherington Conservation Services, Greensboro, NC |
| Physical Description: | [7]-599 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Also issued online. |
| Format: | Book |
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