THE USEFUL AND DOMESTIC ARTS

THE HOUSEHOLD CYCLOPEDIA
of
GENERAL INFORMATION
containing over
TEN THOUSAND RECEIPTS,
in all
THE USEFUL AND DOMESTIC ARTS

"To Tie Knots:
Few persons know how to tie a knot, even women with their neatness in all other matters tie very badly..."

Includes farriery, angling, calico printing, dentistry, jeweller's paste, mezzotints, petroleum, potichomania, divine pomade and telegraphing, among many other things people did 120 years ago, before reality tv.

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