BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT a First Edition Facsimile by BEETON, Mrs Isabella - 1969

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1969. (USA) Second Printing This copy has the red cloth, not red boards, with the top edge of pages yellow. No markings, very very light foxing to the fore-edge pages, Near Fine in unclipped Very Good Dj with a bit of rubbing to edges. Dj is in mylar sleeve. 7" x 4 1/2", red cloth, xxxix, 1112pp. B&W illus. Colour plates. This is the first edition (2nd printing) facsimile of the 1861 edition of BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT presented without any modern editorial comment nor changes. This is a useful work for those interested in this Beeton work as Isabella Beeton died at 28, and subsequent editions of her work were added to and transformed by many other people so that later copies bear little resemblance to the original material. Here we find Beeton's instructions to whiten scorched linen by using "dried fowl's dung", and for making a boot polish using red wine (ordinaire) as one of its ingredients. There are many, many recipes but these have not been veted for modern cooks. A heavy book. (2.5 LYNM HOJ 304/3. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.