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Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book; designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy (1862)

Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878 · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 277

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The following are the dimensions. Length, six feet. Width of seat, twenty inches. Height of seat, four- teen inches. Height of back, from the bottom, four feet. This makes the width of the table when it is turned down. Height of the ends where the table rests w^hen turned over, two feet six inches.… … The following are the dimensions. Six feet long. Seat two feet wide, and sixteen inches high. The parts c c pass within the ends d d. The seat a, when it is shut up, rests on the ledge that runs along the back at b. The bed and bed-clothing are at the bottom of the box, and are shut up in it by…

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