Name/Title
THE COMPLETE HOMEEntry/Object ID
98.40.1.1Description
Color: Black; brown
"The Complete Home" by Julia McNair Wright (Philadelphia: Bradley, Garretson & Co., 1879), 584 pp. A hardcover book with a brown cover with a bordered cover featuring branches, leaves, and flowers and the title, heavily stylized in gold and black lettering. The design is largely the same on the spine with the title and author's name as well as the word "ILLUSTRATED" at the bottom. The design is also on the rear cover, but without any ink. The book has twenty-two chapters on overall domestic management and home economics with chapter headings including a philosophy of domestic management; order and time saving; home economy; children; illness and disease; interior decoration; home industry; literature in the home; domestic accidents; religion; hospitality; friendships; manners; work; domestic harmony; money management; clothing and dress; dealing with servants; marriage and the home; ancient and medieval homes; the model home; and general items on food; sewing; prevention of accidents and gas poisoning and others. The ex-libris label for James M. Goode, seller of the book to the museum, is on the inside front cover. There are a few color illustrations in the work, which has discoloration; foxing; ink stains on the rear cover; overall surfaces soilling and stains on the cover; a loose and fragile binding; and rather heavy damage from abrasions to the spine, so the object is in fair condition.Lexicon
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Home economics, Interior decorationSearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Bradley, Garretson & Co., William Garretson & Co., Architecture, Domestic, Domestic education, Domestic relations
