COTTAGE COMFORTS, WITH HINTS FOR PROMOTING THEM, GLEANED FROM EXPERIENCE: ENLIVENED WITH AUTHENTIC ANECDOTES. BY ESTHER COPLEY. TWELFTH EDITION. DEDICATED (BY PERMISSION) TO Her Most Gracious Majesty QUEEN ADELAIDE. London : PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS' COURT. TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE. MADAM, ENCOURAGED by the condescend ing and benevolent regard which your Majesty uniformly manifests for the welfare of all classes of the subjects of these favoured realms, not only in the grand outline of national advantages, but also in the bumbler details of domestic life, the Author of this little Manual, in its eighth edition, begs permission, with most profound respect, to dedicate it to your Majesty, as an expression of dutiful and loyal attachment, and with the anticipation of obtaining for the Work a more extensive degree of acceptance and usefulness, under the auspices of a Queen who is herself a pattern of conjugal and domestic virtue. |