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 (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 328
refinement as books. Butlet them be the volumes which are worthily attired, and not ricketycloth-covered affairs, or dogs-eared pamphlets. What may be termedsubsidiary presses are better for these, and such presses are best placedin the breakfast-room or bedrooms, or even the kitchen. The… … i 282 Artistic Homes. ledge—and they should be allowed access to the books of the housealways, of course, under proper restrictions. In these auxiliary cases*may be kept such books as those whose original cloth binding isdilapidated, but not yet sufficiently so as to consign them to thebinders…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
