1889 Rare Antique Victorian House Wife's Guide Home Cookbook Etiquette Sold $284

  

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I always have some antique cookbooks /etiquette/ home. VERY Scarce original, It DOES HAVE ITS TITLE PAGE. House and Home, a Complete Housewife's guide. P W Ziegler & Co.

Silver and gold pictorial cover and spine. 7.5 x 9.75, with 532 pages including index. Llustrated with 30 pictures plus 4 colored plates.

About half of this book is a cook book. The other half includes : The Housekeeper and the Home-Maker, If Not Straw - Stubble, The Dining Room Meals and Serving, Cottage Furnishing, Licensed Beggar Or Business Partner? The Etiquette of Family Life, The Vexed Questions Domestic Service In America, Why Monday? Household Worries, Visited, Visitor, With Our Girls, Our Voices, How We Speak, The Candy Curse, With Our Boys, Our Boy and Our Boy's Father, Literary Life of the Household, Women As Mothers, Our Baby, Vagaries of the American Kitchen, Breakfast As It Should Be, The Tea Table, What Our Children Eat, Introduction To Menus, Spring Bills of Fare, Summer Bills of Fare, The Plague of Flies, The Dinner Pail, Autumn Bills of Fare, Thanksgiving Dinner, Winter Bills of Fare, and Christmas Dinner.

Photos carefully as they are part of the description -all of my books are VERY OLD and have wear; I try to cover the book's worse faults, but sometimes I miss some of the smaller stuff. //Text and boards secure, but the back paper/ hinge was cracked and re-glued. Textblock lightly cracked bottom edge in 1 spot. Covers have some tiny spots. Back cover looks good for its age.

Tips and spine ends worn just a wee bit. Pages good but toned around the edges. 3 pages with shadows from paper being left in gutter area.

Opening an old book, always have the cover supported! Place the whole book on a soft pillow. DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT MY OTHER VICTORIAN BOOKS! Please Add me to your Favorites list. AND check back now and then to see what's new!

Otherwise I can't send you a new invoice. If you have trouble, contact me. T can take up to 14 days to get back East. I have provided plenty of photos and do my best to describe the books worst faults. CHAPTER 1- THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE HOME-MAKER: Every House has a Keeper.

Lowest Form of Human Living. Is Her Life Worth Living? Keeping House not Wisely, but Too Well. " My House" and "Our Home".

CHAPTER 2- IF NOT STRAW? The Esthetic Craze, and its Effects upon American Homes. The Substantial Three-Story-Brick, and How it is Furnished. Honest John's Views on the Subject. Husbandly and Wifely Conferences, anent Changes. The Quiet-Eyed Woman who Loves Beauty. Modern Manuals "There is No Use Trying" The Back- Parlor. Japanese Drapery and Family Portraits. Reconciliation of Carpet and Wall-Paper. "Strengthen the Things that Remain" The Front-Room. CHAPTER 3- THE DINING-ROOM, MEALS AND SERVING: Ingenious Architect's Utopian Plan. The Genteel Tank in which People Eat.

Make the Best of what is. A Meal a Graceful Ceremony. The Dumb Man's Visible Thought.

Baron Trenck's Etched Pannikins. Care of and Respect for Dainty Wares. Living up to the Old Blue Teapot. How "Father" Carves and Helps. College Sons'and Society Girls.

Mothers over Fifty Years Old. Too Late to Rectify Little Matters which are Not Trifles. How to Wait and be Waited Upon.

CHAPTER 4- COTTAGE FURNISHING: What is a Cottage? Barbarism of White Paint and Green Blinds. Hard- Wood Floors, and Painted Boards.

Sanitary Rugs and the Week's Work. YOURSELF, Your Mark Books are Aristocrats.

How to take off the Edges of the Strictly Useful. Extremes of Scantiness and Crowding. CHAPTER 5- LICENSED BEGGAR, OR BUSINESS PARTNER: Loveless Marriage, Legalized Crime. Truest happiness Found in Marriage. Nice Every-Day, Pretty Well-Satisfied Couples. The Great Majority of Couples.

A Good Thing that Might be Made Better. The Scorpion-Lash that Drives Wives Mad.

Wives Should not Mind Being Treated as Paupers, But they do. Man the Bread Winner; Woman the Bread Eater. The Old, Old, Hateful Story. Ole' Marster an' My Chillun. And the Penciled Butcher's Bill.

And How She Duped Her John. A Guild of Privileged Paupers.

Ask Them how They Like It. Representative John to the Front.

Would You Have My Wife Earn Her Own Living? Flattening the Base of the Egg.

Solomon Grundy and His Query The Etiquette of Family Life. CHAPTER 6- THE ETIQUETTE OF FAMILY LIFE: Another Fellow's Sister. Grace Over the Whole Barrel. Philemon Nemo and Baucis Definition of Courtship Temporary Insanity. Breakfast in the Nemo Household. Sentiment Dies Hard in Women. A Savage in Every Man. Model Daughter and Gray-haired Father. The Inference is Patent One of Two Things is Wrong. The Responsibility of Wives in this Matter. The Husband Has Gone Out of the Business Taking the Boys Down. Seed of an Ugly Plant The Toss-and-Tumble Style of Home Life Crockery Platters and Garnished Porcelain? Sincere and Sweet, and Sincere and Sour. Hearts Won are Not Hearts Kept. A Simple Rule of Action. CHAPTER 7- THE VEXED QUESTION? DOMESTIC SERVICE IN AMERICA: English Journal and American Manual. Are there No Servants in the United States?? English "Servantgalism" Continental Pikes and Butcher-knives. If no Servant, No Mistress. English Phillis and English Abigail.

Service as Truly a Trade as Millinery. " Miss "Howard, Halyburton and Hamilton?

Ellen and the Country Aunt. Me Mother's Sister, Mem! The Cross of Living Out. The Head the Only Indispensable Member of the Corporation. " The Girl "Holds the Winning Card. Stiff-Ticket Reference a la mode. Margaret's Tricks and Drawbacks. Only Safe and Honorable Thing To Do. Nine Cases Out of Ten.

Ten Cases Out of Ten. Rule that Should Work Both Ways. The "Hard Place" a Small Pox Placard Curses to be Shunned for Others as for Ourselves. A Word of Caution A Paragon in Every Hireling Not To Be Expected. Is Any Day Less Convenient?

" Steam, Stress and General "Stew of Washing-Day. Tommy Snooks and Betsey Brooks. Abrupt Change Prom Day of Rest.

Monday Like a Cold Snap in Spring. One Mother's Pretty Device. Astonishing Slowness of Apprehension and Narrowness of Mind. What the Brave Lady of the Future Will Do, Haunting Demon of Civilization. CHAPTER 9 - LADY- Loaf-Giver.

' Lettice of Warwick; Elizabeth of Hungary; Katherine Parr; Lady Lothrop. And the Washlady's Husband. Resolution of the Board of Management. Refinement of Sarcasm Arrogant Claim of Silly Illiteracy. The Royal Name of Woman.

Ruskin's Deliverance on this Subject. Action, Not Condition, Makes the Noble Man or Woman. Tottering on the Main Truck Lady-Help Wanted.

CHAPTER 10- MOUSE OR RAT? Stubborn Effort to Set Other People Right. Story of Vulgar Fellow in His Carriage, and Gentleman Driving a Wagon. Hard To Allow One's Friends To Be Mistaken.

Restiveness of Reformer Under Criticism. Web not of our Weaving, Nor For Our Wear. Let Others Enjoy Their Opinions.

If They Annoy Yon, Get Away From Them. CHAPTER 11- HOUSEHOLD WORRIES: Woman's Daily Life, One Part Work and Three Parts Worry; A Man's, One Part Worry and Three Parts Work. Men Are Courageous, Women Patient. Not My Way of Doing Business! Difference in Man's and Woman's Method.

Usually the Woman Has None. Veteran Housekeepers and Printed Manuals. Keeps a Dog and Does His Own Barking. S Description Hands and Assistants.

Wife's Agony of Self-Upbraiding. The Large Establishment No Exception. The Most Defenceless Class in the Community. An Uneasy Ocean Casting Up Mire and Dirt. Household Worries Should Be Superficial.

Woman in Insane Asylum Polishing One Window-pane. CHAPTER 12- VISITED: Is Hospitality a Duty?

Latch-string superseded by Spring-bolt and patent Key. The quid pro quo of Receiving and Entertaining. "Quite one of The Family" Young Girls in Virginia Country House. Flying One's Own Colors. The English Method of Giving Invitations. Unconscious Impertinence of Coming Some Other Time. Visitor of the Spongiest Type. CHAPTER 13- VISITOR: "Hospitate" Crust of the Loaf.

Successful Hosts depend upon Appreciative Guests. Can't you let me off this once? One Guest, and His Exactions. Mungo Park and Zulu Woman.

Too Late, and Too Early. Do not Gossip of your Host. CHAPTER 14- WITH OUR GIRLS: Heaven Help the Men. Requisites for Spinster, and for Wife. Our Girl Speaks Her Mind.

The Man who Knows No Better. The Man who Means Well. CHAPTER 15- OUR VOICES: Pompeiian Guide upon American Voices. Family Party at Delmonico's. Quality and Key of Voice. Use of Soft Pedal and Legato Movement Heredity. Ben Jonson and John Sylvester. CHAPTER 16- HOW WE SPEAK: Common Sense and Sad Experience. Go Astray as Soon as Born, Speaking Double Negatives. Magnificent Woman and Her Speech. Self-Made Man and Murdered English. When the Foible becomes Guilt. Impossible to Speak Too Well. What We Owe to Our Mother Tongue, and to Ourselves. CHAPTER 17- THE CANDY CURSE: Candy-Eating Babies. Girl of Fourteen and Her Bedside Comforter. Sugar as an Exclusive Article of Diet. Edson's Analysis of Poisonous Candy. Natural Taste for Sweets, A Feminine Vice. CHAPTER 18- WITH OUR BOYS: William Wirt Small, Sweet Courtesies of Life. Gentleman of the Old School. Etiquette of Men's Hats.

Our Boys, and Graceful Ways. Undue Familiarity of Speech Leads to Freedom of Touch.

Womankind, and Respect due Them As Such. CHAPTER 19- OUR BOYS AND OUR BOYS?

FATHER: Anecdote of Boston Clergyman and Deacon. The Only Way to Cure Your Boy! Girls like Hop-Vines, are Brought Up. Dick's Evenings at Home. Bumptiousness and What It Means. Mothers somehow make Allowances for Everything?

CHAPTER 20- LITERARY LIFE OF THE HOUSEHOLD: Literary Life of the Household Some Households have None. Rising Man without Early Advantages. Business Man and The Newspaper.

No Higher Mission than the Mothers. The Woman who Will Read. CHAPTER 21- WOMEN AS MOTHERS: Reasons why Women should not Vote. No Training for Maternal Office. CHAPTER 22- OUR BABY: Queen.

All the Difference in the World. Husband's Work and The Wife's.

Living Over Our Own Lives Again. CHAPTER 23- VAGARIES OF THE AMERICAN KITCHEN: Twenty-Seven Religions and One Gravy. Our Housewife's Warm, Substantial Breakfast.

Drained Dishes and Undrained Vegetables. Jamestown Tower and Plymouth Rock.

Sooty Idol Hope for the National Cuisine. CHAPTER 24- BREAKFAST AS IT SHOULD BE: Breakfast as it Should Be Our Movable Feasts. Why We do not Adopt Paterfamilias utters His Mind.

Goblin Care at Early Morning. Father at Breakfast Behind Newspaper. Bill-of-Fare, and How to Eat Breakfast. CHAPTER 25- THE TEA TABLE: Yorkshire Tea, Eighty Years Ago. Our Big and Varied Teas. Dry, Cold and Cheerless Evening Meal. Our Best China and Sunday Nights. Means of Grace and Beauty. CHAPTER 26- WHAT OUR CHILDREN EAT: Dr. Fothergill upon Food for the Nursery. Two-Year-Old Baby and Wind-fall Pears.

Bobby's Breakfast, Dinner and Supper. Why the Trial-Balance does not come out Right. American Lad upon Diet of Princes. SPRING BILLS OF FARE 125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner - Fried Pigs?

Oyster Omelette Imitation Spaghetti Deviled Beef in Batter Catfish Soup Larded Chickens Rechauffe of Fish Fatima? S Pudding Apples and Bacon Graziela Pudding Home-Made Crackers Cornmeal Cup Cake Rechauffe of Fish Tomato Toast Cabbage Salad with Boiled Dressing Farina Blanc Mange Chocolate Trifle +more.

SUMMER BILLS OF FARE- 125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner- Deviled Crabs Cold Welsh Rarebit Fresh Beef? Tongues with Mayonnaise Meringued Coffee Arrowroot Porridge Cocoanut Cake Roast Fowl a la Guyot Liver a la Jardiniere Stewed Celery Lobster Chowder Indian Meal Pudding Banana Ice Cream Dried Rusk and Milk Lemon Cream Toast Fish Bisque Maigre + more.

AUTUMN BILLS OF FARE- 125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner- Mutton Chops Creamed Lobster Flannel Cakes Fried Liver White Scones Brewis Risen Corn Bread Clam Fritters Baked Apple Charlotte Boiled Chestnuts Rabbit Soup Browned Beef? S Tongue Curry of Tomatoes and Rice Turnips with White Sauce Boiled Indian Pudding Mutton and Macaroni Cheese Fingers Doughnuts Turnip Soup Deviled Oysters +more. WINTER BILLS OF FARE - 125 Recipes Arranged in Bills of Fare for Breakfast, Luncheon and Dinner - Fricasseed Eggs Crumpets Giblet Soup Hominy Croquettes A Winter Hen?

S Nest Marmalade Cake Cheese cups Oatmeal Gingerbread Cocoa-theta Cod Chowder Baked Calf? S Head Oyster Plant Fritters Chicken or Veal Fondue How to use the last of the Mutton Soft Raisin Gingerbread Stewed Duck Russian Soup Salmon Pudding with Lemon Sauce Graham Fruit Pudding +more. PLUS PICKLES, FRUIT JELLIES, PRESERVES, JAMS, AND MARMALADES, AND A FEW DISHES FOR THE INVALID. This book is very old and. May have accumulated bad smells along the way [musty basement/ mildew/ smoke].

Dryer sheets in them for a few months makes a world of difference! My nose doesn't work like it use to. So the old book smell doesn't bother me. As far as I can tell -this book has no bad smell. The item "1889 RARE ANTIQUE VICTORIAN HOUSE WIFE'S GUIDE HOME COOKBOOK ETIQUETTE SOLD $284" is in sale since Saturday, September 30, 2017. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "craminn" and is located in Sherwood, Oregon. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Binding: Fine Binding
• Year Printed: 1889
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition
• Subject: Cooking
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Topic: VICTORIAN