Consult me : how to cook... on confectionery... how to brew... on household management and economy... on diseases and their remedies... on games of cards, chess... how to dye... consult me as to married women's property... on the cold water cure, and on a thousand other things
A Victorian household compendium by Robert Kemp Philp, issued in London by W. Nicholson & Sons in 1902, covering cookery, brewing, home remedies, card games and domestic law for general family use. The wood engravings include livestock shown in profile with butchery joints numbered on the body, plus trussed and dressed carcasses, giving designers clear outline animal diagrams with legible numbering.
