Mrs. Beeton's Everyday Cookery with About 2,500 Practical Recipes

A new edition of Isabella Beeton's celebrated cookery work, with illustrations throughout. New edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour and nearly three hundred in-text illustrations. Collated complete. First published in 1861, this extensive guide to managing a Victorian household was a best-selling book. By 1868, it had sold nearly two million copies, making it an extremely popular guide, held as standard by many at the time. Alongside nearly 2500 recipes, the volume includes sections on laundry, carving, table decorations, and beverages. Written by Isabella Mary Beeton, an English writer and journalist best-known for her work on household management. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. Dated from the National Library of Scotland. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. The odd mark to the cloth with small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Further spotting to the first and last few pages with age toning to the endpapers. Good.…