An Encyclopaedia of domestic economy, comprising such subjects as are most immediately connected with housekeeping, as the construction of domestic edifices with the modes of warming, ventilating and lighting them, a description of the various articles of furniture, with the nature of their materials ; duties of servants, a general account of the animal and vegetable substances used as food, and the method of preserving and preparing them by cooking ; making bread ; the chemical nature and the preparation of all kinds of fermented liquors used as beverage, materials employed in dress and the toilette ; business of the laundry, description of the various wheel-carriages ; preservation of health, domestic medicine etc ... by Thomas Webster ... assisted by the late Mrs. Parkes ..