"Our Home, The Key to a Nobler Life", by Charles Edward Sargent [1854-1935], with an Introduction by Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield, illustrated, published by W.C. King, Springfield, Mass., 1885, copyright 1883.

Hard boards, original publisher's red cloth decorated in black [some wear and soiling: see photos]; 6" x 8"; decorated endpapers, the title page is worn with damaged edges and repair paper strips along the edges: see photo]; facsimile of the Letter of Introduction by Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield; 432 pages+ 15 pages of testimonials, numerous illustrations, decorations, and full page woodcut illustrations, good++/ very good condition.

"There are certain diseases whose symptoms are chiefly or wholly local, but which, nevertheless, must be cured by constitutional remedies. Such is the character of most of those moral diseases that affect human society, and the remedies we have tried to point out are constitutional remedies. The one organ we have aimed to reach is that which is the most central and vital of any in the living body of society- the home." [from the Preface].

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