Isabella Beeton — Mrs Beeton&Apos;S Household Management

London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited , c1950 . Cloth. A new edition of Mrs. Beeton's celebrated comprehensive book of cookery and household management, illustrated throughout, including with sixteen colour plates. A new edition. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Dated using Jisc, from a copy held at the University of Leeds library. Illustrated with fifteen colour plates and more than three-hundred monochrome additional illustrations. Lacking one colour plate to p1392. Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organisation 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. First published in 1861, this very popular work has since been printed in numerous editions, such as in this new edition, almost one-hundred years later.With the charming original advertisements to the rear of the work and endpapers, including those for 'Stuffo' sage and onion stuffing, Lea & Perrins sauce, and much more. Bound in the publisher's cloth. Externally, very good, with light rubbing to joints and extremities. A few marks to boards and light fraying to cloth at the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few marks to the fore edge. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .