The American frugal housewife : dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy / by Mrs. Child, author of "Hobomok," "The mother's book," editor of the "Juvenile miscellany," &c.

Copy 2: Early manuscript recipes (for sponge cake and a "salve for burns") on recto of front free end-paper; additional manuscript recipes/treatments on recto of first rear fly-leafearly clipped newspaper recipes pasted to verso of front free end-paper, verso of title page, pages 3, 4, and 5 (covering printed text in several cases), verso of rear free end-paper, and free end-paper (red sealing wax used as adhesive evident in a few locations); pencil inscription on front paste-down: "George Wingate, 2004, Wenham, MA. Formerly in the posession [sic] of "Mary K," who is probably Mary Kimball, my maternal grand-mother of Lowell, MA"; copy of a letter, dated 19 September 2023, from independent scholar Keith Arbour, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Sue Trent, Wenham, Massachusetts, regarding this copy, its provenance, and its to MSU, available in MSS 466.

Copy 2: Laid-in materials (now available in MSS 466): Folded scrap of blue paper with early manuscript cure "to cure a Cough" (found between pages 24 and 25); printed bifolium ("A month with Jesus" by Mrs. C. L. Goodell; a Congregationalist publication), with penciled name at head of page [1] ("Mary K.") and "From the handbook for 1896" header printed on page [4] (found between pages 102 and 103); piece of lined paper pasted to pink card stock, with manuscript recipe on the former ("Buckwheats") (found between pages 102 and 103); clipping, torn in two, from an unidentified 19th-century newspaper (column headed "The housekeeper") containing recipes and household hints (found between pages 108 and 109).

MSU: Conservation 1993 Bessenberg Bindery Ann Arbor, MI

MSU: Lacking pages 129-130.

MSU: Lacking frontispiece plate; title leaf damaged, slightly affecting imprint, as well as one clipping on verso; pages 126-130 damaged, slightly affecting text.

MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 8, Folder 201.

Copy 1: In modern brown quarter cloth with marbled paper over paste-boards; spine lettered in gilt; original boards in folder accompanying volume.

Copy 2: In publisher's quarter tan cloth with printed paper over paste-boards (spine mostly perished, exposing printed binding waste); title page reproduced on upper board, with advertisements on lower board.