The Housekeeper’s Scrapbook.
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., [1911]. First edition. As the laid-in newspaper clippings indicate, the present work was intended to preserve recipes, instructions for home improvement, and other information that would help housekeepers better tend to the homes and families of their employers. Each page blank except for a heading and, on about a third of all pages, half- or full-page illustrations in orange and black. The headings correspond to different locations in a house (kitchen, attic, nursery, etc.) and the illustrations show housekeepers tending to the home and caring for their employers. Brown leaves. Binding is bright and attractive. With four newspaper clippings (recipes, other information about food, and a guide to keeping aphids out of a garden) laid into the “kitchen” section and one clipping laid into the attic section (“Home Brightener: Finishing the Attic Room”). A fine, clean copy. Publisher’s tan pictorial cloth illustrated in black and orange. Quarto. 125 pp. Item #17444
Louise Perrett (fl. 1905 - 1920) was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Impressionist painter John Carlson, and was influenced by the art of illustrator Howard Pyle. Perrett eventually taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a member of the Chicago Society of Art and the Austin Art League of Illinois. Two of her paintings, Mother and Child and Resting, were exhibited in Chicago.
OCLC records only two copies (one in Missouri and one in Ohio).
Price: $250.00