Sm.8vo. White cloth covers with gilt to spine and front with blue lettering to front. In glazine dustwrapper. 45pp. 2 photographs of portraits & 6 wood-engravings by F.Martin. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Small tears to edges, esp at front. Slight browning). Collected thoughts of Susanna Whatman on housekeeping and managing servants. Chapters include, The House Maid, The Cook, The Laundry Maid, The Housekeeper and others. With extracts from later letters and short biography.

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