An illustrated large format 1927 hardcover edition of The Book of the Home A Practical Guide for the Modern Household Volume I published in London by The Gresham Publishing Co Ltd. Edited by Davide C Minter with an introduction by Lady Jekyll D B E, this comprehensive historical domestic manual provides an extensive look into early twentieth century interior decorating, household administration, furnishings, and fine pottery. The volume features a beautiful color frontispiece plate illustrating fine examples of Doulton of Lambeth, Poole, and Ruskin ware ceramics, making it an outstanding historical reference work for collectors of antiquarian lifestyle guides, art deco period design historians.