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A manual of domestic economy : suited to families spending from £100 to £1000 a year. Including directions for the management of the nursery and sick room, and the preparation and administrations of domestic remedies / by J.H. Walsh... assisted in various departments by a committee of ladies.

The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs Isabella Beeton.

The family magazine: in two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick.

Vim you see in sizes three, every size saves L.s.d / Lever Brothers Limited.

The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age ... With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, diary-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / By Hannah Woolley.

Wrinkles and notions for every household / by Mrs. De Salis.

A new system of practical domestic economy.

The Harpic home book.

Housecraft, hygiene and care of infants / by the Rev. J.W. Hayes and H. Emlyn-Jones.

The house-keepers' guide and Indian doctor : containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps, and an excellent system on the treatment of the hair : the best method of cleaning brass, marble, mahogany furniture, cutlery, carpets, &c. &c. : also, a complete system of genuine Indian doctoring, to which is added directions for letter writing under various circumstances : the book closes with the celebrated chemical washing recipe.

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Household Work

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Wrinkles and notions for every household / by Mrs. De Salis.

A new system of practical domestic economy.

The Harpic home book.

Housecraft, hygiene and care of infants / by the Rev. J.W. Hayes and H. Emlyn-Jones.

Household Work

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Wrinkles and notions for every household / by Mrs. De Salis.

A new system of practical domestic economy.

The Harpic home book.

Housecraft, hygiene and care of infants / by the Rev. J.W. Hayes and H. Emlyn-Jones.

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