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Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy
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Title: Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Published: 1850
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 306
Catalogs: Cookbooks, Etiquette, Parenting and Family
Description: Brown blind-embossed cloth binding with nearly invisible gilt lettering on spine; spine has been professionally repaired with a similar color cloth, and the remnants of the original spine are affixed to that. Pages are extremely foxed throughout. Ownership information in ink and pencil on flyleaves. The contents of this book aim to help people learn to manage their household budgets, with regard to domestic expenditures, largely concerning food, cooking, and marketing, but also extending to labor management, kitchen furniture and appliances, caring for sick family members, and hosting parties. Following this book's index, and before the publisher's list, is the title page and contents of a forthcoming Beecher publication, A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) was an American educator and writer known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual The American Woman's Home with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869 and was an anti-suffragist. Hardcover, good condition. 306 pages plus publisher's list and contents of another Harper & Brothers-published Catharine Esther Beecher book; 12mo.
Author: Catharine Esther Beecher
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Published: 1850
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 306
Catalogs: Cookbooks, Etiquette, Parenting and Family
Description: Brown blind-embossed cloth binding with nearly invisible gilt lettering on spine; spine has been professionally repaired with a similar color cloth, and the remnants of the original spine are affixed to that. Pages are extremely foxed throughout. Ownership information in ink and pencil on flyleaves. The contents of this book aim to help people learn to manage their household budgets, with regard to domestic expenditures, largely concerning food, cooking, and marketing, but also extending to labor management, kitchen furniture and appliances, caring for sick family members, and hosting parties. Following this book's index, and before the publisher's list, is the title page and contents of a forthcoming Beecher publication, A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878) was an American educator and writer known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. She published the advice manual The American Woman's Home with her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1869 and was an anti-suffragist. Hardcover, good condition. 306 pages plus publisher's list and contents of another Harper & Brothers-published Catharine Esther Beecher book; 12mo.
