Author: Mrs. Beeton [Isabella Beeton]
Title: Mrs. Beeton&Apos;S Household Management
Description: London, Ward, Lock, & Co, 1923 . Cloth. A vibrantly illustrated 1923 edition of Isabella Beeton's renowned work of cookery and household management. A lovely 'New Edition' of this famous work, illustrated with numerous illustrations and a further thirty-two exceptionally bright full colour plates. Collated, complete.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 editions and revisions throughout the following decades, keeping it up to date with contemporary tastes.With numerous fascinating contemporary adverts throughout, including to both pastedowns and free endpapers, and with twelve  further pages of advertisements to the rear.With a contemporary inscription to a front blank. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with loss of cloth to front joint. Rear joint starting, with board somewhat tender. Vertical split to cloth at centre of back strip, with binding itself still firmly held. Light rubbing to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with the odd handling mark throughout. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .

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