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1000 books: Libby.
Another one of these luscious, lusciou books that became so popular after the Edwardian Diary: Libby: The Sketches, Letters, & Journal of Libby Beaman, Recorded […]
1000 books: A Lady of Fashion.
This is one of my favorites of these: A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson’s Album of Styles and Fabrics (copies start at $160) is a […]
1000 books: Maud.
Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman, Maud Berkeley. This time, she lives on the Isle of Wight, these diaries are for the 1880s-90s, […]
1000 books: Country Diary
Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden, from 1906 but taking the Gift Books world by storm in 1977 and for what seemed […]
1000 books: Diary of a Victorian Lady (first of many).
The Diary of a Victorian Lady: Scenes from her Daily Life, 1864-1865, from Adelaide Pountjoy. This is a total pleasure: a young woman of considerable […]
1000 books: all those Scandinavian cookbooks!
There were so many of these…. Norse Cookery: A Cook Book of Popular Norwegian Recipes (1960), no author, published by the College City Press, in […]
1000 books: Time Cat.
This isn’t quite one of the 1000. I read this as a child, and I owned a copy as an adult, but at some point […]
1000 books: another Receipt Book.
I think this might be the last of my Very Old Cookbooks: possibly the most interesting of them. The Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe, A.D. […]