Beeton's Every-Day Cookery And Housekeeping Book. A Practical And Useful Guide For All Mistresses And Servants. Entirely New Edition Revised And Greatly Enlarged

olive green original publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on front cover and on spine; all gilt is bright; the front cover and spine are also decoratively illustrated in colour; front and rear paste-downs and free end papers contain many advertisements including Keene's Mustard, Colman's Flour; Fry's Cocoa etc.; 568 pages; n.d. [ ca1890 ]; hinges strong; minor shelf rubbing at edges; 8 full colour plates including the large fold-out full colour frontispiece which is in excellent condition and depicts a "diinner table laid for twelve persons"; interior pages are clean; no previous owner's signatures , inscriptions or notations; a very good copy.