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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen Maid, Butler etc.......Also, sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda; With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things conected
by Beeton, Mrs Isabella
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden & Co 1892. Small 8vo. Half title, frontis, xlvi, [2] plate lists, 4 pp. adverts printed in red and black, 1644, 28 pp. adverts printed in red and black, 12 pp. publisher's catalogue. Modern red cloth respine with gilt lettering and decoration over original green cloth. Slight waterstaining to top edge. Light rubbing to boards. Prize bookplate to front pastedown. Yellow endpapers printed with adverts in black and red. Tear to frontis. Light foxing to fore-edge and ocassionally throughout. Chromolithograph plates complete. Entirely new edition, revised and corrected and greatly enlarged. Five hundred and fifty-eighth thousand. 15cm x 20cm. . Very Good. Cloth. New Edition. 1892.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71246
- Title
- Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen Maid, Butler etc.......Also, sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda; With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things conected
- Author
- Beeton, Mrs Isabella
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock and Bowden & Co 1892
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Size
- Small 8vo.
- Keywords
- House,Home,Mrs Beeton,Illustrated,Cooking,Cookery,Recipes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food and Drink; Mrs Beeton;
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Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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London, Greater London
About Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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