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The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions
subjects: household management, cookery, dairy, brewing,
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The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for . . . the management and good oeconomy of the domestick concerns of a country life . . . shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping, . . . methods of cookery . . . method of making butter and cheese . . . brewing good beer. etc.
London: printed for James Hodges and for B. Collins, bookseller at Salisbury 1750
20 cm. X, 379 p. frontis
GB: ANLW LWIVI LeU(B)*
US: KMK NPV NYPL
1. For information on the author see Vicars Bell, To Meet Mr. Ellis (London, 1956).
Bitting, p. 143; Oxford, pp. 79-80.
Frontispiece from William Ellis, The country housewife's family companion
Title-page from the same