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The young woman's guide to virtue, economy and happiness : being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding; with a complete and elegant system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy; also, the art of carving and decorating a table, explained by engravings. Confectionary in all its branches. Proper directions for marketting [sic], and bills of fare for every day in the year. Best method of brewing for large or small families. Making and managing British wines. Valuable medical directions. A great variety of useful family receipts. To which are added, instructions to female servants in every situation; approved rules for nursing and educating children, and for promoting matrimonial happiness : illustrated by interesting tales and memoirs of cultivated females; the whole combining all that is essential to the attainment of every domestic, elegant, and intellectual accomplishment

Title: The young woman's guide to virtue, economy and happiness : being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding; with a complete and elegant system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy; also, the art of carving and decorating a table, explained by engravings. Confectionary in all its branches. Proper directions for marketting [sic], and bills of fare for every day in the year. Best method of brewing for large or small families. Making and managing British wines. Valuable medical directions. A great variety of useful family receipts. To which are added, instructions to female servants in every situation; approved rules for nursing and educating children, and for promoting matrimonial happiness : illustrated by interesting tales and memoirs of cultivated females; the whole combining all that is essential to the attainment of every domestic, elegant, and intellectual accomplishment / By Mr. John Armstrong, and assistants of unquestionable experience in medicine, cookery, brewing, and all the branches of domestic economy.
Author: Armstrong, John.
Publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Printed and published by Mackenzie & Dent, St. Nicholas' Church-yard, [1818?]

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xii, 684 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

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Watermark = 1818.
"Embellished and illustrated with twelve appropriate engravings."
Dedication: "To the young females of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, this work is most respectfully inscribed ..."
Illustrations: Frontispiece engraving, "A domestic scene," depicting a family at dinner. -- Extra engraved title-page, with a vignette of a woman seated under a tree at a drawing table, with an easel and paints. -- Diagram engraving of cuts of meat (beef; veal; venison; pork; mutton). -- Diagram engraving of servings of meat (cod's head; shoulder of mutton; aitch bone of beef; leg of mutton; half a calf's head; quarter of lamb). -- A second diagram engraving of servings of meat (haunch of venison; hare; ham; goose; pig; roast fowl). -- Diagram engraving of poultry cuts (boil'd fowl; partridge; leg; pheasant; wing; neck bone; pigeons). -- 6 plates of engraved diagrams suggesting a "Table of One Course" for each month of the year; two months are illustrated on each plate. -- Diagram engraving suggesting dessert plates for winter and summer.

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Pforz (Armstrong, J. Young woman's guide. 1818. 3 ed.)

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271769618

Author

Armstrong, John.

Title

The young woman's guide to virtue, economy and happiness : being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding; with a complete and elegant system of domestic cookery, formed upon principles of economy; also, the art of carving and decorating a table, explained by engravings. Confectionary in all its branches. Proper directions for marketting [sic], and bills of fare for every day in the year. Best method of brewing for large or small families. Making and managing British wines. Valuable medical directions. A great variety of useful family receipts. To which are added, instructions to female servants in every situation; approved rules for nursing and educating children, and for promoting matrimonial happiness : illustrated by interesting tales and memoirs of cultivated females; the whole combining all that is essential to the attainment of every domestic, elegant, and intellectual accomplishment / By Mr. John Armstrong, and assistants of unquestionable experience in medicine, cookery, brewing, and all the branches of domestic economy.

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Printed and published by Mackenzie & Dent, St. Nicholas' Church-yard, [1818?]

Edition

Third edition.

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Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Pforzheimer copy: Table of Contents bound before Preface. -- Bound in full polished calf, with a red morocco spine label and gilt spine titling.

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