Beeton, Mrs Isabella - The book of household management comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen maidetc Also sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda. With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort.

Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. 1880. New edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, rebound in green cloth with red cloth spine and gilt titles with new endpapers, page edges tanned, name and date on colour frontispiece verso. l + 1296 pages + 22 pages of publisher's adverts, adverts on pastedowns, 11 colour plates, plate ix is missing and plate xi has a triangular cut from bottom corner, 10 wood engravings, illustrations in the text, index. Good with no dust jacket.