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Recipes and cross-stitch

Flavors and threads from Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Virginia : Williamsburg Rose and Thistle Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, 1994

Looks like this little cook might be sharing a bit too much (3 images)

May we share with you ... Annandale, Virginia : Hope Lutheran Church, 1973

George du Maurier’s novel, with a Margaret Armstrong-designed cloth binding and interesting bleed-through of manuscript notes onto frontispiece (2 images)

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. Trilby, a novel. New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894

Rising Sun Tavern and Hugh Mercer Apothecary Shop, Fredericksburg, Virginia (2 images)

From: Fredericksburg, Virginia travel brochures

Mount Vernon, 1928 (5 images)

From: An illustrated handbook of Mount Vernon, the home of Washington. [Mount Vernon, Virginia] : Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, c1928.

Can we try this remedy first, instead of bleeding, to cure a quinsey (also known as a peritonsillar abscess)?

From: A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery. London : Printed for Mary Kettilby, 1724

Officially certified facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, illuminated by the coats of arms of the United States and of the original states. New York : The Holland Studio, Fifth Ave., N.Y., 1902

Marbled endpaper

From: Sharp, Granville,1735-1813. A representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, or of admitting the least claim of private property in the persons of men, in England. London : Printed for Benjamin White and Robert Horsefield, 1769