The reason why domestic science: affording intelligible reasons for the various duties which a housewife has to perform. . . .
1869Best.-Nr. 63221London: Houlston & Sons Paternoster Square 1869. 12mo. xvi 368 pp. Embossed & decorated red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover gilt lettering on spine advertising on endpapers minor dustsoiling darkening to spine slight shelfwear still a VG bright copy. Revised & expanded edition of this Victorian handbook which served as precursor to the modern-day search engine and offered concise quick researched facts about food cookery food science chemistry heating & ventilation cleanliness women’s medicine pediatrics and more. Philp 1819-1882 was an organizer and contributor to the Chartist Movement in the UK pushing for universal male suffrage secret ballots annual parliamentary elections and other reforms but is perhaps best remembered as the very successful publisher of his handbooks on practical everyday topics which originally launched in 1856 with “Enquire Within” and later in 1867 with the early version of this title. Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square, hardcover
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