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Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book With Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties, Labour-Saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Etc..; Carving and Trussing, The Art of "Using-Up", Table Decoration, The Home Doctor, The Nursery, The Home Lawyer, Etc.
by Beeton, Isabella [ed.]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited circa 1925. Large 8vo. xvi, 1680, [8] pp. Patterned blind-stamped quarter red cloth with gilt lettering over olive-coloured cloth boards in illustrated jacket, not price clipped; all edges speckled red. Chipping to edges of jacket, marks and slight slight creasing to panels. Minimal wear to spine ends, boards clean. Scattered foxing to fore-edge and edges within but generally internally clean. With 32 colour-plates and nearly 700 illustrations. 8 pages of adverts at rear. Adverts on endpapers. Usually it's the later 40's editions of this one that turn up. A sound and tight copy. . Very Good. Cloth Spine. New Edition. 1925.
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- Bookseller
- Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70555
- Title
- Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book With Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties, Labour-Saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Etc..; Carving and Trussing, The Art of "Using-Up", Table Decoration, The Home Doctor, The Nursery, The Home Lawyer, Etc.
- Author
- Beeton, Isabella [ed.]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited circa 1925
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- Large 8vo.
- Keywords
- Mrs.,Beeton's,Household,Management:,Complete,Cookery,Book,With,, Sections,on,Household,Work,,Servants',Duties...Carving,and,, Trussing...Table,Decoration...,Housekeeping
- Bookseller catalogs
- Food and Drink; Mrs Beeton;
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