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1,024 pages: 6.25 x 9 in.: 3.2: KB#017366: No dustjacket is included. Black boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound (except for slight separating at back page, repaired by hinge tape) and sharp cornered (except for heavy wear at board corners and edges). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Contains two books bound as one: Book 1 (744 pp) titled "Household Discoveries: An Encyclopaedia Of Practical Recipes And Processes". Book 2 (280 pp) titled "Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book: A Manual Of Instruction In The Art Of Everyday Cookery". "It is a wonderful collection of household hints from the era, very complete instructions on how to keep house and cook, as well as tend the ill and put up food. The main object of this book is economy. If rightly used, it will save a great deal of money in every household. It will also save time and labor, which are the equivalent of money. This is a modern (as of 1909) book. All who have owned or used one of the old- time books of recipes know that hardly a week passe that they do not find occasion to refer to it. They will, we believe appreciate the importance of having the latest and best information along those lines obtainable. Others, who have no good collection of this sort, will appreciate without argument the value of purchasing a new book rather than an old one. There are a number of other books of recipes, but the present volume is unique in three ways: what it contains, what it omits, and the way it is arranged.": Color Illustrations