IDEAL WOMANHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD: A BOOK FOR EVERY WOMAN (Salesman's Sample); (A Revised and Enlarged Edition of MATERNITY)

Chicago, IL: American Bible House (Formerly L.P. Miller & Co.), 1894. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. Octavo. Navy blue stamped cloth, ruled, bordered and embellished with black embossments, and lettered in gilt. Rear board repeats front, but in red faux-leather cloth, ruled/embellished in blind, with much brighter gilt to center vignette ("Ideal Womanhood and Motherhood: How Attained") Folding front flap of stiff cloth which repeats title. Beveled leading edge to front board only. Lovely patterned front endpapers. Rear endpapers non-pareil marbling, in red, navy, white, black, and tan. Front hinge started (unrepaired, but easily repairable) with mull showing, but holding.

Flap in rear pastedown contains 29- page staplebound pamphlet entitled: "Plates Illustrating Maternity; A Book for Every Wife and Mother", with many anatomical diagrams printed to the pages. Flap itself shows a 1 1/2 in. tear near top which does not interfere with removing or replacing the pamphlet.

Chapters on 1) The Young Wife; 2) The Organs of Generation; 3) Menstruation; 4) Pregnancy; 5) Constipation; 6) Diseases of Pregnancy;
7) Miscarriage and Abortion; 8) Pre-Natal Culture; 9) Parturition without Pain; 10) Child-Birth; 11) Nursing; 12) Infants and How to Care for Them; 13) Children and Their Diseases; 14) Youth; 15) Diseases of Women; 16) Diseases of Women - Homeopathic Treatment; 17) Diseases of Pregnancy - Homeopathic Treatment; 18) Diseases of Infants - Homeopathic Treatment; 19) The Sick Room; 20) Poisons and Their Antidotes; 21) Our Boys; 22) Our Girls .

Chapters followed by Index, Testimonials and Subscriber pages (none filled out).