The Great Collection of Olde Tyme Notions with Potions and Lotions for Every Day Living
n.p. Old Hickory Publishing Company, 1974.
Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 200pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with dust soiling, rubbing to extremities, and creasing to spine. Binding remains firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Ink to pages is very occasionally lighter than elsewhere in the publication. A solid copy of this 1974 collection of traditional, century-old "potions, concoctions, and methods that were used to accomplish tasks during the time when self reliance, indiviudal fortitude and ingenuity was required," including household recipes like "lemonade for invalids," "gooseberries, to dry," and "celebrated moth and freckle lotion," handyman instructions for such tasks as making a hydrometer from catgut and a straw, making fertilizer from carcasses, and making cements, varnishes, and peach tree gum, and remedies, including tinctures, essences, and elixirs, along with explosives, homemade fireworks, and much, much more. Good. Item #5839
Price: $35.00