{"product_id":"the-new-cyclopedia-of-domestic-economy-and-practical-housekeeper-5000-recipies","title":"The New Cyclopedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper, 5000 Recipies","description":"\u003cp\u003eEllet, Mrs. E. F. \u003cstrong\u003eThe New Cyclopedia of Domestic Economy, and Practical Housekeeper. \u003c\/strong\u003eNorwich, Conn.: Henry Bill, 1872. [12023]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalf black morocco with dark purple pebble cloth boards, elaborate gilt decoration and title in 5 panels on spine, binding corners worn through and scuffed, 9 1\/4 x 6 1\/4 inches. Marbled page edges and end papers. Chromolithograph plate of a family seated to dinner by T. Sinclair \u0026amp; Son of Philadelphia. The plate lacks the tissue guard and there are a few tiny bits of the tissue stuck to the plate. There is a second chromolithograph of a similar scene; the tissue guard has a hole and there is some scuffing to the image where a bit was removed from the plate (see pics). The title page has a small pull in the hinge at the bottom edge. 603 clean pages plus publisher's catalogue; tight. With over 200 text engravings. Very good. Hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitle continues: \u003cstrong\u003eAdapted to All Classes of Society, and comprising Subjects Connected with the Interests of every Family; such as Domestic Education, Houses, Furniture, Duties of Mistress, Duties of Domestics, the Storeroom, Marketing, Table and Attendance, Care and Training of Children, Care of the Sick, Preparation of Food for Children and Invalids, Preservation of Health, Domestic Medicine, the Art of Cookery, Perfumery, the Toilet, Cosmetics, and Five Thousand Practical Receipts and Maxims. From the best English, French, German, and American Sources. Illustrated with over Two Hundred Engravings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The young housekeeper will appreciate the advantages of a compendium which embraces rules and advice pertaining to all the duties expected of her; advice as to early house training, the taking and furnishing of a house; the different departments filled by servants, and the superintendence of the mistress; the laying in of stores and purchases in market; the art of making and arranging things used every day, and of setting out a table to advantage; the care of children, and the best food for them; the preparation most useful for invalids; the attendance at meals, and various matters in household management which no book before this has ever taught in detail, but which are commonly left to the slow teaching of individual experience....In the department of Cookery, arranged under forty-five heads, an unusually large variety of recipes is given for the styles in every-day living - soups, meats, sauces, \u0026amp;c., because is was desirable to include the latest improvements, and because the want of variety in such preparations is usually complained of in American cookery.\" - Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Fries Ellet (1818-1877), b. Sodus Point, NY; d. New York City. Her maternal grandfather, John Maxwell, was a Revolutionary War captain, and her father, William Nixon Lummis (1775-1833), was a prominent medical doctor who studied under Dr. Benjamin Rush. These close family ties to the American Revolution may have inspired her to write the first book about the lives of the women who contributed to the American cause in the Revolution. She wrote for several periodicals and published books of poetry, travel, and biography. In her private life she became embroiled in a scandal regarding Edgar Allen Poe, herself, and Frances Sargent Osgood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In 1857, Ellet published a 600-page encyclopedia of American home economics entitled \u003cem\u003eThe Practical Housekeeper\u003c\/em\u003e. The guide, which seemed to target middle to upper class readers, was organized into three parts: cooking, housekeeping and pharmaceutical concerns. Its contents included thousands of recipes and advice with references to philosophers, scientists, and ancient civilizations. There were also five hundred wood-engraved illustrations. She wrote in the preface, 'No complete system of Domestic Economy, within the limits of a convenient manual, has been published in this country'.\" - MSU Library, \u003cem\u003eHistoric American Project\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43781649793090,"sku":"ABE12023","price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC06946BackgroundRemoved.png?v=1779566002","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/the-new-cyclopedia-of-domestic-economy-and-practical-housekeeper-5000-recipies","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}