Hale, Sarah Josepha.

Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million: 4545 Receipts, Facts, Directions Etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts, and in the Conduct of Life. Being a Complete Family Directory.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1857.

Thick octavo, 721 pages + 11 ads. First edition of this classic guide to the domestic arts, an expanded and much enlarged version of the author's earlier work, The New Household Recipe Book. Includes sections on brewing, pickling, preserving, and the management of canary-birds. One signature slightly askew, and a bit of light foxing throughout, otherwise internally near very good. In publisher's blind and gilt-stamped brown cloth. Some light edgewear, otherwise very good.