A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY, For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and At School

Beecher, Catherine [Catharine] E.

Published by Harper & Brothers: NY, 1854

About this Item

Illus., 7.5 x 4.75", embossed brown cloth, 369pp + index, covers rubbed and unevenly sunned, rear covers with dark staining, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends torn and chipping, dark stain (ink?) on bottom edge of textblock, pp foxed and toned, but still a usable, readable instruction book for young women of the mid-Nineteenth Century. "Revised Edition". Chapters include: "Difficulties Peculiar to American Women", "On the Care of Health", "On Domestic Exercise", "On the Construction of Houses", etc. Sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Seller Inventory # 21-9971

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A TREATISE ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY, For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and At School
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers: NY
• Publication Date: 1854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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