Seely, Lida

Mrs. Seely's Cook-Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery with Chapters on Domestic Servants, Their Rights and Duties, and Many Other Details of Household Management

Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoore House, 1984. Hardcover. Mrs. Lida Seely was more than a cook-book author. She ran an employment agency that provided staff for most of the wealthy families of New York. She trained not only young men and women to work in large homes but she later imparted her rules and regulations to the public at large. --------- If you were unclear of the actual duties of a "Fourth -Man" Mrs. Seely would be able to explain exactly what you would need him to do. [CBD] --------------- No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Quarter leather to patterned boards. Silk endpages, all edges gilt, color two page frontispiece. Illustrated. --------- Introductory essay: Housekeeping in the Gilded Age, by Shirley Abbot. Series: Antique American cookbooks. 8vo; 25, xiii, 432 p., [52] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Originally published in 1902.

Fine / None Issued. Item #008874

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