The wife's manual
Subtitle: or, Prayers, thoughts, and songs, on several occasions of a matron's life
By: by the Rev. W. Calvert ...
Contributors: Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876, printer; Byfield, Mary, engraver; Whittingham, Elizabeth Eleanor, illustrator; Whittingham, Charlotte, illustrator
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Notes: In verse.

"C. Whittingham, Took Court, Chancery Lane."

The first known use of Basle Roman cut for the Chiswick Press by William Howard.  Cf. A. F. Howard, Type designs (2d ed.), p. 83ff.

"The style of ornamentation ... is that of ʻA book of Christian prayers,' printed by John Day, 1569, usually called ʻQueen Elizabeth's prayer book.'  The side-pieces on pages 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 are fac-similes of wood-cuts in that work."

Title-page border signed: W. Calvert delt. M Byfield sc.

Each page of main text within woodcut border designed, either as indicated above, or in the same style by Elizabeth Eleanor Whittingham and Charlotte Whittingham, engraved by Mary Byfield.