c1916 The Ideal Home, How to Find it, How to Furnish it, How to Keep it

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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A charming work discussing the trials of finding a perfect home, with tips on decoration, furnishing, and hosting. The author advises on finding a home, fitting up the servant's quarters, the details of servants, religion in daily life, nursing and first aid in the home, how to run a small dairy farm, as well as offering a selection of menus and recipes. This is a charming work that shows the domestic ideal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty-three colour plates, and numerous full page monochrome illustrations. Written by Matilda Lees Dods, who was a diplomee of the South Kensington School of Cookery. She was also a certified teacher in laundry work, dressmaking, dairy work, poultry rearing, and first aid. Undated, dated circa 1916 from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. Collated, complete.