Author: Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Title: The Book of Household Management
Description: London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, c1868 . Leather. An early edition of Mrs. Isabella Beeton's iconic book of household management, complete with twelve colour plates. 125th thousand. Dated using Jisc, from other early copies of the work held institutionally. Bound in quarter morocco with cloth boards.Illustrated with forty-eight colour illustrations spread over twelve plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organisation of kitchens and larders, marketing, and a calendar of food in season. She also gave advice on table decorations, how to wait a table, how to set a table, and how to carve meats and fish. Some of the recipes included vary from meat, poultry, salads, tarts, cold sweets, sandwiches, bread, jams, and icing. An interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it. Beeton's work was originally serialised as 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine' in twenty-four monthly instalments in 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine', her husband's publication. Her work has been constantly expanded over time, and is still in print. With fourteen pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Bound in quarter morocco with cloth boards. Externally, generally smart, with rubbing to the extremities and joints and a few marks. Small chip to spine head. Bookseller label to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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