Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery with over 2,000 Practical Recipes

A comprehensive household guide by Isabella Beeton, offering over 2,000 practical recipes and domestic tips, richly illustrated throughout with colour plates. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Illustrated with eleven colour plates, a colour frontispiece, and over two-hundred and fifty images. Collated, complete.A helpful study in household management, being a collection of over two thousand practical recipes for the home-cook, with sections on household work, laundry, renovations, table decorations, meals and menus, beverages, and more. Written by Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, an English journalist, editor and writer particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear. Dated from the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight rubbing to boards. Slight discolouration to boards with the odd minor handling mark. Front and rear joints cracked, with binding materials slightly exposed, but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if slightly age toned with the odd light spot and minor handling mark, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Very Good.…