Victorian Houseware, Hardware and Kitchenware: A Pictorial Archive with Over 2000 Illustrations (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Teeming with over 2,000 illustrations — reprinted from rare woodcut engravings and selected from antique catalogs — this archive offers an extensive view of the furnishings of a typical 19th-century home. It features andirons and ash sifters, housemaids' buckets and buttonhole cutters, sausage stuffers, seed strippers, spittoons, and hundreds of other items.