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[WOMAN'S SECRET]. A woman's secret; or, how to make home happy. With an Appendix containing recipes for preparing economical and nutritious food.

London. Griffith and Farran, 1860. Ninth thousand.
12mo. 66pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's printed salmon wrappers. Rubbed, surface loss to lower wrapper, a trifle creased and dust-soiled, chipping to spine.
'Rice can be dressed with endless variety, and with a little care and trouble can be made so nice, that most children will greatly prefer it to dry bread, whilst its cost is much less'.

A succinct guide to home management, in original unsophisticated state, for the use of housewives, written in the form of a fictional narrative, with an appendix comprised of economical recipes.

COPAC records copies at just two locations (BL and Cambridge); OCLC adds no further.
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 24127