Author: Margaret Maria Brewster
Title: Sunbeams in the Cottage or, What Women May Do a Narrative Chiefly Addressed to the Working Classes
Description: London , Thomas Constable and Co, 1854. Cloth. A fascinating book of social guidance for the Scottish working classes. Third edition. By Margaret Maria Brewster, daughter and biographer of Sir David Brewster, the Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal. With a list of recipes to the appendix, including fish pudding, cheap cottage soup and a good breakfast for young people. The second part of the appendix includes instructions for starching shirts and washing shawls. A publisher's catalogue to the rear advertises works by Sir David Brewster as well as further works by Margaret Maria Brewster. In a cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with wear to extremities, especially head and tail of spine. Slight straining to front hinge. Internally, both free endpapers missing. Otherwise, generally firmly bound and generally bright. Children's pencil marks to both pastedowns, as well as slight ink marks. Occasional marks throughout. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Scotland Margaret Maria Bewster David Brewster Working Class Margaret Maria Bewster None
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Title: Sunbeams in the Cottage or, What Women May Do a Narrative Chiefly Addressed to the Working Classes
Description: London , Thomas Constable and Co, 1854. Cloth. A fascinating book of social guidance for the Scottish working classes. Third edition. By Margaret Maria Brewster, daughter and biographer of Sir David Brewster, the Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal. With a list of recipes to the appendix, including fish pudding, cheap cottage soup and a good breakfast for young people. The second part of the appendix includes instructions for starching shirts and washing shawls. A publisher's catalogue to the rear advertises works by Sir David Brewster as well as further works by Margaret Maria Brewster. In a cloth covered binding. Externally, sound with wear to extremities, especially head and tail of spine. Slight straining to front hinge. Internally, both free endpapers missing. Otherwise, generally firmly bound and generally bright. Children's pencil marks to both pastedowns, as well as slight ink marks. Occasional marks throughout. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: Scotland Margaret Maria Bewster David Brewster Working Class Margaret Maria Bewster None
Price: GBP 195.00 = appr. US$ 278.46 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: GEN26-C-1
- Book number: GEN26-C-1
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