Mrs. Beeton [Isabella Beeton] — Mrs. Beeton&Apos;S Cookery Book

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. A lovely copy of the New and Revised Edition of Mrs. Beeton"s Cookery Book, complete with the scarce unclipped dust wrapper, richly illustrated throughout. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Complete with the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.New and revised edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and one hundred and fifty in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive cookery guide for the early twentieth-century housewife, featuring sections on marketing, laundry, table decoration, carving, and practical household hints, along with recipes ranging from soups and stocks to cold sweets and iced buns.Written by Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, an English journalist, editor and writer best known for Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861). With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Spine slightly faded. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Front hinge slightly cracked, but firm. Dust wrapper, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping resulting in the odd small tear, chip and crease. Slight roiling to wraps with the odd minor spot and handling mark. slight age toning to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned with the odd light spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.