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Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family
- Title
- Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.
- Author
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
- Publication
- London : C. Clement, 1822.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 9910.259 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 4 unnumbered pages, 120, [145]-166, [169]-207, iv pages; 17 cm
- Subject
- Agriculture > England > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Home economics, Rural > England > Handbooks, manuals, etc
- Agriculture
- Housekeeping
- Chores
- Rural population
- Agriculture
- Household Work
- Rural Population
- farming (activity or system)
- agriculture (discipline)
- housekeeping
- Rural population
- Housekeeping
- Chores
- Home economics, Rural
- England
- Genre/Form
- Handbooks and manuals
- Note
- Imprint: London: Printed and published by C. Clement, No. 183, Fleet Street. Repeated without place of publication on the last page.
- Pages are numbered as are paragraphs. Although pagination is discontinuous as indicated, paragraphs are numbered consecutively 1-208.
- Signing is irregular, likely due to revisions to plates for stereotype edition with the following pages signed: 9 (A2), 25 (C), 27 (C2), 33 (C5), 57 (C5), 75 (D2), 81 (D5), 105 (E5) 147 (G2), 153 (G5), 171 (H2), 177 (H5), 195 (I2). Front matter (title page and table of contents) and back matter (index) are not signed; front matter has no page numbers, back matter is paginated [i]-iv..
- Leaf dimensions: 17.6-19.2 x 10.6-11.1 centimeters. Paper is wove, with vague watermarks (pot?) visible in the middle of the page toward the spine in A5, C2 and C6, [superscript chi]C2, D5, E6, G5, H2 and H5, I2.
- Collation: pi² A¹² C¹² [superscript chi]C¹² D¹² E¹² G¹²(-G12) H¹² I⁸ chi²
- On p. 166, last leaf of number 6, "N.B. The next Number of this Work, to treat of divers matters, will be the last. The whole will then be bound in a volume, and sold at 2s. 6d."
- OCLC
- ocm06068288
- 6068288
- SCSB-153543
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library