An encyclopæaedia of domestic economy: comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping as, the construction of domestic edifices, with the modes of warming, ventilating, and lighting them; a description of the various articles of furniture; a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the methods of preserving and preparing them by cooking; making breads materials employed in dress and the toilet; business of the laundry; description of the various wheel carriages; preservation of health, domestic medicines, &c.[&c
Webster, Thomas, 1773-1844