Cottage Economy
COBBETT, William
Containing Information relative to the brewing of Beer, making of Bread, keeping of Cows, Pigs, Bees, Ewes, Goats, Poultry, and Rabbits, and relative to other Matters deemed useful in a Labourer's Family. Fifteenth Edition.
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Published: Anne Cobbett 137 Strand, 1838
Stock code: 7223
Price: £84.00
Sm. 8vo., Fifteenth Edition, with full-page engraved illustration of an ice-house, some mild age-staining to text throughout; original boards, very neatly rebacked in green cloth to style, old backstrip laid down, paper label, boards mildly age-marked at edges else a very good, bright, crisp copy.
Cobbett's domestic manual for the labouring classes was first published in parts between 1821 and 1822. An immediate success, it has become a classic of rural and economic literature and is arguably his best-remembered work after 'Rural Rides'.