1854 Eliza Leslie Lady House Book Domestic Economics Laundry Cooking PROVENANCE

1854 Eliza Leslie Lady House Book Domestic Economics Laundry Cooking PROVENANCE

 

Eliza Leslie’s ‘Lady’s House Book’ is a mid-19^th-century home and domestic economics books. This work is a manual on all-things-home; how to manage the various aspects of keeping a home. Leslie covers laundry, manners, cooking, cleaning, farming and animal care, furniture upkeep, lights, and heating, and much more!

 

Item number: #12096

Price: $499

 

LESLIE, Eliza

 

Miss Leslie’s lady’s house-book : a manual of domestic economy, containing approved directions for washing, dress-making, millinery

 

Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan, successor to A. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1854.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 462, [10]
• Provenance:
  • Handwritten – Ida Powell Dulany, 1856
    • Ida Powell Dulany (1836-1897) was the author of a famous US Civil War diary from July 1861 – January 1865.
    • Dulany ran the family’s plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia while her husband Henry Dulany was serving in the war with the 6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company A.
    • The diary’s fame is attributed to the high volume of entries that record in great detail plantation life and ongoing news of the war.
    • According to the Library of Virginia (the diary’s curator)” “…topics covered include domestic responsibilities and social encounters, increasing deprivation, news of distant battles and eyewitness reports of fighting in the neighborhood, and the vandalism and plunder of her home by successive raiding parties of Union soldiers in the late winter of 1864.”
  • Modern Bookplate – James Beard
    • James Andrews Beard was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher, and television personality. Beard was a champion of American cuisine who taught and mentored generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts. His legacy lives on in twenty books, other writings and his foundation’s annual James Beard awards in a number of culinary genres.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
  • Size: ~7.5in X 5in (19cm x 13cm)

 

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