A black hardcover book titled "The Household Guide or Safe Treatment at Home." The book is black with a border of embossed vines at the top and bottom of the cover, with the centre reading "Home Remedies for Man & Beast," the back has the same border design but it reads "Family Receipts." The title page explains the book is a "Complete Manual of Domestic Information. A new treatise on insect extermination. New methods and receipts for spraying fruit trees, vines and flowers. The effects of alcohol and cigarette smoking" as well as "Home Remedies and Home Nursing. A complete cyclopedia of new receipts and celebrated prescriptions. How to cook etc." It is by Prof. B.G. Jefferis. It was published by J.L. Nichols, Naperville, Ills in 1892. It is the fourth edition.