MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT : Facsimile of the Original 1861 Edition by Beeton, Mrs Isabella - 2000

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Chancellor, 1986-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 8x6x2. Well-illustrated. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Good ex-library book. Besides the usual labels and stamps this book has mild general shelf-wear. This is a good reading copy. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

London: Chancellor Press, 1986. reprint. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxxviii + 1112pp., text ills., index, Facsimile of the 1861 edition

London: Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Slight foxing. [1938]. New Edition. Khaki hardback cloth cover with maroon embossed spine. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). xvi, 1680pp + plates & ads. 124 plates (32 in colour); nearly 700 illustrations. 4,000 recipes. Frontis 'Hors D'oeuvre dishes and savouries'. Heavy book – extra shipping needed for overseas. .

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.

Tan calf spine with black title plate, gilt banding and ornate decoration on the spine. Blue, yellow and red marbled boards. Supplied with a newly made protective box.
An excellent mid-Victorian, this copy is reflective of its date of issue. The book best known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guide-books published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. Although Mrs Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that every… Read More

1901. New edition with Illustrations. Very good. 15 20 8. Red calf spine with gilt titles and decoration. Black cloth boards. Has recently been professionally rebound.
. A superb rebound edition now reconditioned for a further 50 years good use. The book best known as Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first published as a book in 1861. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guide-books published by her husband, Samuel Beeton. The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. Although Mrs Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that… Read More

London: Ward, Lock and Co. 1888. Large 8vo. 1888 entirely new edition, revised and corrected and greatly enlarged, four hundred and sixty-eigth thousand. 1644, 28, [12] pp. Recently bound maroon morocco over marbled boards; with a green leather panel, raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to the spine; in a slipcase. Top edge burnished red. Adverts printed in red and black to the rear. Yellow endpapers printed with adverts in black and red. Some bleeding from the coulour at the top edge to the leaves, alongside black ink markings to the fore edge. Some spots occasionally throughout. An attractive copy. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1888.