An Encyclopæaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected with Housekeeping As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture; a General Account of the Animal and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Breads Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilet; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel Carriages; Preservation of Health, Domestic Medicines, &c.[ &c

An Encyclopæaedia of Domestic Economy: Comprising Such Subjects as are Most Immediately Connected with Housekeeping As, the Construction of Domestic Edifices, with the Modes of Warming, Ventilating, and Lighting Them; a Description of the Various Articles of Furniture; a General Account of the Animal and Vegetable Substances Used as Food, and the Methods of Preserving and Preparing Them by Cooking; Making Breads Materials Employed in Dress and the Toilet; Business of the Laundry; Description of the Various Wheel Carriages; Preservation of Health, Domestic Medicines, &c.[ &c
Authors: Thomas Webster
Published on: 1845
Page Count: 598 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
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