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Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish, and adorn a home : containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving ... to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people / by Almon C. Varney, assisted by the following corps of special contributors : John H. Young, Mrs. J.M.S. Holden, Chas. E. Bentley, William Boydell, John Swift.

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Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-147040

Description

496 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Home economics.
Dwellings.

Originator

Varney, Almon Clother, 1849-
Jones Brothers & Company.

Publication

Cincinnati ; Chicago [etc.] :

Description

496 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Call Number

Stacks TX23.V37 1882

Variant Title

How to build, finish, furnish, and adorn a home

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