Simple Directions for the Cook

Stock No. 19097

Authors: Caroline, Reed

London, New York, Madras: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1917

Crown 8vo (7 x 4.5 ins); pp xii + 84. With a coloured frontispiece. Original decorative cloth boards with the pictorial dust-jacket, spine rubbed at head, not price-clipped. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. An excellent copy and not commonly found with the jacket at all let alone in such clean and complete state. The author wrote six of these guides for household servants in the "Simple Directions" series, namely for the cook, waitress or parlour maid, butler, chambermaid, laundress, and children's nurse. They were intended to improve the standard of housekeeping and bettering the condition of household workers.