Author: Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Title: The Book of Household Management
Description: London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1882 . Leather. A brightly illustrated and smartly bound late nineteenth century edition of Isabella Beeton's renowned work. The three hundredth and sixty-first thousand of this immensely popular work.Collated, illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ten further colour plates. Lacking plate X. With further vignette illustrations.First published in 1861, this extensive guide to managing a household was a best-selling book. By 1868, it had sold nearly two million copies, making it an extremely popular guide held as standard by many at the time. By 1907, the work spanned over two thousand pages. After her death in 1865, Beeton's guidebook continued in its popularity and saw countless edition and revision throughout the following centuries, keeping it up to date with contemporary tastes.With contemporary advertisements to the front and rear of the work.A smart late nineteenth century edition of Beeton's popular work. Rebound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, very smart, with light marks to back strip, and boards bright. Internally, firmly bound. Paper wraps bound in to front and rear, significantly age toned with tape repairs. Tail of frontispiece detaching. Tape reinforcements to fore edge of an early leaf. Pages lightly age toned, with instances of light spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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