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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
by BEETON, Isabella Mrs
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London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913. An interesting look at life in a Victorian and then Edwardian household, and the running of it
BEETON, Isabella Mrs. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. A Guide to Coookery in all Branches... New edition. Revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated. London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913.
Thick octavo ( 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x 133 mm.). [viii], [1]-1997, [3, blank], [16, advertisements] pp. Thirty-two color plates, one hundred and forty-two black & white plates and two illustrations in the text.
Publisher's quarter red morocco over green cloth boards, spine richly decorated in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers with printed advertisements, all edges speckled brown. A remarkable, almost untouched copy.
Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organization 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. She played a pivotal role in shaping Victorian notions of household management and became an influential guide for generations. This is an interesting look at life in a Victorian and then an Edwardian household, and the running of it. It remains a valuable historical document, offering insights into the daily lives and cultural values of the 19th-century middle-class households.
Isabella Mary Beeton (1836-1865), known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor. In 1857, less than a year after the wedding, Beeton began writing for one of her husband's publications, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. She translated French fiction and wrote the cookery column, though all the recipes were plagiarized from other works or sent in by the magazine's readers. In 1859 the Beetons launched a series of 48-page monthly supplements to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine; the 24 instalments were published in one volume as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in October 1861, which sold 60,000 copies in the first year.
Bitting p. 32; Cagle 561.
BEETON, Isabella Mrs. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management. A Guide to Coookery in all Branches... New edition. Revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated. London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913.
Thick octavo ( 8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 207 x 133 mm.). [viii], [1]-1997, [3, blank], [16, advertisements] pp. Thirty-two color plates, one hundred and forty-two black & white plates and two illustrations in the text.
Publisher's quarter red morocco over green cloth boards, spine richly decorated in gilt and blind, yellow coated endpapers with printed advertisements, all edges speckled brown. A remarkable, almost untouched copy.
Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organization 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. She played a pivotal role in shaping Victorian notions of household management and became an influential guide for generations. This is an interesting look at life in a Victorian and then an Edwardian household, and the running of it. It remains a valuable historical document, offering insights into the daily lives and cultural values of the 19th-century middle-class households.
Isabella Mary Beeton (1836-1865), known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor. In 1857, less than a year after the wedding, Beeton began writing for one of her husband's publications, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. She translated French fiction and wrote the cookery column, though all the recipes were plagiarized from other works or sent in by the magazine's readers. In 1859 the Beetons launched a series of 48-page monthly supplements to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine; the 24 instalments were published in one volume as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in October 1861, which sold 60,000 copies in the first year.
Bitting p. 32; Cagle 561.
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- Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management
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- BEETON, Isabella Mrs
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- London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited, 1913
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