New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1875 [but circa 1878]. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 459, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing, with the slight change in name of the publisher, which occurred in 1878. The second in the author's "Common Sense in the Household" series. Marion Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a Virginia born novelist and author of non-fiction, mostly for women. She wrote a number of.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1878]. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of.....