Domestic Economy: "The True Economy of House Keeping." Broadside
Boston? 1841.
Early Edition. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000777
Large linen backed broadside of recipes and advice taken from Child's popular The Frugal Housewife. Varnished with some cracks to paper and a small spot on the lower right where the paper has worn away. Verso blank with more or less uniform browning and a few stains and marks. Tacked to contemporary or early rollers as intended "This Chart is Intended to be Suspended Like a Map". Marked the Twentg-seventh (sic) Edition. Just three copies of broadside editions in OCLC and just one of this edition (at the American Antiquarian Society).
Broadside measures 22 x 27 1/4 inches. BAL 3105 and 3106 list earlier broadside editions (3106 in 7 columns and slightly smaller) published around the 1829 publication date of The Frugal Housewife. Not in Cagle. Undated but the 27th edition of The American Frugal Housewife (the title was changed in 1833 to avoid confusion with Susannah Carter's The Frugal Housewife) was printed in 1841. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000777.
Price: $750.00