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Title The Young ladies' treasure book : a complete cyclopaedia of practical instruction and direction for all indoor and outdoor occupations and amusements suitable to young ladies / profusely illustrated with wood engravings and coloured plates
Published London : Ward, Lock, [1884]

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Description vi, 890 pages, 8 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents Contents. Introduction -- Home duties -- Study and sel-improvement -- Simple science -- Employments and etiquette for young ladies -- Outdoor amusements -- Artistic instruction -- Dress and needlework -- Indoor amusements -- Home pets
Summary A "storehouse of knowledge and information on every subject that enters into girl-life" [p. 2], covering elegant household arts, home duties, study and self-improvement, science for girls, parish work, indoor and outdoor games and amusements, social manners and etiquette, artistic occupations and pusuits, and domestic animals and pets
Notes Date from British Library catalogue
Includes index
Audience For girls and young women
Subject Amusements -- Early works to 1900
Hobbies -- Early works to 1900
Young women -- Life skills guides.
Young women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900
Genre/Form Almanacs.
Handbooks and manuals.