Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated
A Victorian household manual issued by Ward, Lock & Co. in London and New York in 1879, compiled under Isabella Beeton's name for middle-class British housekeepers and companion to her Book of Household Management. The wood engravings diagram needlework step by step: looped thread paths over grids, macramé knots on padded boards, netted and embroidered squares, lettered stitch guides usable as pattern motifs and line-art borders.
