The reason why: domestic science : affording intelligible reasons for the various duties which a housewife has to perform / by the author of Enquire within upon everything ... [etc.].

  • Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882.
Date:
[1869]
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Credit: The reason why: domestic science : affording intelligible reasons for the various duties which a housewife has to perform / by the author of Enquire within upon everything ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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