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New Royal Cook Book

Royal Baking Powder Company

The New Royal Cook Book is a practical kitchen manual aimed at the “young housewife” and seasoned cooks…

The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys

Hicks, C. Stansfeld; Maskelyne, John Nevil; Stables, Gordon

The volume presents itself as a comprehensive “recreative text‑book” for boys, promising a blend of solid…

Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food

Pierre Blot

Pierre Blot’s Hand‑Book of Practical Cookery presents itself as a comprehensive manual for both domestic…

Billiards

William Broadfoot

The work is a comprehensive instructional manual on the game of billiards, issued as part of the Badminton…

A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products

F. B. Wright

This work is a practical handbook on producing industrial alcohol from farm products, written by Frederic B.

Dog Breaking The Most Expeditious, Certain, and Easy Method, Whether Great Excellence or Only Mediocrity Be Required, With Odds and Ends for Those Who Love the Dog and Gun

W. N. Hutchinson

Dog Breaking is a practical manual on the training of sporting dogs, written by Major‑General W. N.

A Field Book of the Stars

William Tyler Olcott

Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada

Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Mother’s Remedies is a sprawling compendium of more than a thousand home‑cure formulas collected from mothers…

How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell

Sara Cone Bryant

The book is a practical guide for teachers, librarians and anyone who wishes to use oral storytelling with…

A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, Including the Practice of the Collodion Process

T. Frederick Hardwich

This work is a comprehensive technical guide to the chemistry and practice of nineteenth‑century photography,…

Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford

Oxford University Press

This volume is a practical handbook for the staff of Oxford University Press, first issued in 1893 and…

Poster advertising: Being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers

George Henry Edward Hawkins

George Henry Edward Hawkins’s work is a practical treatise on the use of bill‑posting as an advertising…

The House in Good Taste

Elsie De Wolfe

The House in Good Taste is a guide to interior decoration written by the celebrated American designer Elsie…

The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It

Walter Winans

Walter Winans’s The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It is a practical manual that positions itself as a…

Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover

United States Food Administration; Blunt, Katharine; Powdermaker, Florence; Swain, Frances Lucy

The book is a government‑issued wartime manual, prepared under the direction of the United States Food…

The Apple The Kansas Apple, the Big Red Apple; the Luscious, Red-Cheeked First Love of the Farmer's Boy; the Healthful, Hearty Heart of the Darling Dumpling. What It Is; How to Grow It; Its Commercial and Economic Importance; How to Utilize It.

The Apple is a comprehensive agricultural handbook that treats the apple tree as both a scientific curiosity…

The American Frugal Housewife

Lydia Maria Child

The American Frugal Housewife is a practical guide to household management written by Lydia Maria Child, a…

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.)

Daniel Defoe

The work is a practical handbook aimed at the young English tradesman of the early nineteenth‑century,…

Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass

Lewis F. Day

Lewis F. Day’s Windows is a practical handbook for anyone who wishes to understand how stained‑and‑painted…

The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement

Edmund G. Gress

The Art & Practice of Typography is a comprehensive manual that blends historical scholarship with a hands‑on…

Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.

A. Hyatt Verrill

Alph​eus Hyatt Verrill’s Knots, Splices and Rope Work is a practical manual that begins by cataloguing the…

The Honey-Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management

Edward Bevan

The Honey‑Bee is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends natural history, physiology and practical…

Rural architecture: Being a complete description of farm houses, cottages, and out buildings

Lewis F. Allen

The book presents itself as a practical handbook for the American farmer, offering a “complete description of…

How to Read the Crystal; or, Crystal and Seer

Sepharial

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise on crystal gazing that begins with a sweeping essay on the limits…