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The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Isabella

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The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Isabella

The Book of Household Management

by Beeton, Isabella

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London, ca.1897-1901]: Ward Lock & Co. Second-hand hardcover.

Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management. (700th) Ward Lock & Co: London, UK [ca.1897-1901]. 8vo (205x130mm) qtr bnd red morocco gilt dec, green cloth bds xlviii,1644,[12]pp. VG-/- cnrs lightly bumped, joints repaired, minor foxing to plates


BEETON, Isabella

The Book of Household Management | comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, parlour-maid, housemaid, lady's-maid general servant, laundry maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet and sick nurse, governess | also sanitary, medical and legal memoranda. With a history of the origin, properties and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort.

Seven Hundredth Thousand

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited

Octavo, (205x130mm) quarter bound red morocco, gilt decorated and lettered, green cloth boards, xliviii,1644,[12 publisher adverts]pps.
 
Joints professionally repaired, some light foxing to some plates; corners lightly bruised and rubbed.  Else, a very nice clean copy.

A very good late Victorian edition (1888-1891), with numerous illustrations (68 full-page) plus 13 colour plates (2 folding).

Contains 3733 recipes, receipts & miscellaneous memorandums of household advice for the aspiring housekeeper of the late 19th century.  Includes chapters on American & Colonial cookery (including Australian recipes for Kangaroo Tail Soup and Curry, Roast Wallaby and Parrot (paraqueet) Pie); Indian cookery and European cookery.


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  • Place of Publication London, ca.1897-1901]
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The Book of Household Management

The Book of Household Management

by Beeton, Isabella

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NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Bookplate on front free endpaper, . jacket lightly sunned at spine.. 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. 0374215138 . xxxix, 1,112 pages. Facsimile reprint of this 1861 cookbook and compendium of Victorian household advice. Red boards. Measures 7 x 5 x 2.5 inches. Fascinating and still relevant reading.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Book of Household Management; Comprising Information for the Mistress... [A First Edition Facsimile]

by Beeton, Isabella

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New York: Jonathan Cape Limited, 1969. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1112pp. Illustrated. Some general wear to the book and dust jacket. Former owner's bookplate is on the front flyleaf. Above the bookplate there is former owner's name/info that is marked over with a black marker
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Hardcover. 1969. Facsimile repr. Thick 12mo 1112pp . Very Good+ in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. Comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid- of-all-work , laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. Etc. Also, Sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda; With a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort .
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The Book of Household Management

by Beeton, Isabella

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S.0. Beeton, 1977. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Facsimile. Red cloth, xxxix, 1112pp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine but lightly sunned d/w. Beeton's popular work contains everything you ever wanted to know about 19th century Victorian housekeeping, valet, butlers, maids, and laundry service.
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by Isabella Beeton

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Ward, Lock & Co, 1898. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. 644pp, plus ads. Covers worn. Interior is mildly worn and stained.
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London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. First edition. First edition, first printing, first issue with "Bouverie St" on the illustrated title page; with the farmyard frontispiece. xl, 1112 pp. Complete with 12 color plates. Bound in recent purple cloth with black leather backstrip lettered in gilt, new endpapers. Very Good with foxing to endpapers, occasionally to plates, toning along edges. A lovely copy of the Victorian age's domestic bible.
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