Arts Revealed 1859

Arts Revealed, and Universal Guide;

Containing many recipes and Directions for the Use of Families, from the Best Authorities.

Published by H. Dayton, Indianapolis: 1859. 

This mysterious looking book contains recipes and advice for everything, including a very poisonous but “infallible cure” for cancer! When I say everything, I mean everything - here are some examples:

Cologne water - Root beer - Recipe to cleanse black veils - A “guide in all things” for young ladies and young gentlemen” - Embroidery stitches - Recipe to blacken the eyelashes - Saffron lozenges and strawberry ice cream - Treating “incubus, or nightmare” - Medicinal use of mandrake - How to be prepared for accidents - Sugar of lead - Bite of rattlesnake - To make leeches take hold - Soft and excellent gingerbread - Wedding cake - Recipe for lemonade - Recipe for erasive soap.

…And so much more! A fascinating insight into the mid 19th-century household. 

135 pages.

Book is in poor condition, but binding is good and will hold up to use! Significant staining and wear to cover boards. Interior pages show heavy foxing, tanning and staining. Spine is deteriorating.