1844 An Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected With Housekeeping: As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture with the Nature of Their Materials; Duties of Servants; a General Account of the Animals and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Bread; the Chemical Nature and the Preparation of all Kinds of Fermented Liquors used as beverage; Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilette; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel-Carriages; Preservation of Health; Domestic Medicine, &c. &c.

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Scarce

The scarce first edition. 

Illustrated with nearly one thousand woodcuts throughout.

Sixteen pages of adverts to the front, dated February 1845, and thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated October 1846. 

An immensely detailed encyclopaedia guiding the reader on the proper running of a Victorian household.

Offering a fascinating insight into the Victorian home, written at a time when such manuals were essential for every home and housekeeper.

Divided into twenty-six books, with sections including ventilation, artificial illumination, the domestic residence, furniture, servants, food, beverages, bread, food preservation, the arrangement of a kitchen, recipes for English cookery, fabrics for clothing and furniture, the toilette, jewellery, horses, pets, and more.

This was an immensely popular publication, being oft-reprinted in both the U.K. and U.S.

By Thomas Webster, assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes.