Mrs. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book

A highly illustrated new edition of this renowned guide to running a household in Victorian Britain from Isabella Beeton. A new edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-one colour plates, and numerous black-and-white images. Collated complete. Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, first published as a book in 1861.The recipes were highly structured, in contrast to those in earlier cookbooks, and although Mrs. Beeton died in 1865, the book continued to be a best-seller. This guide contains tips for cookery in all branches, daily duties of the mistress, hosting, trussing and carving, menu making, home doctor and sick nursing, the nursery, and more. Written by Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, an English journalist, editor and writer who married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor. With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear.Dated from the British Library. In the original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Odd marks to boards. Shelf wear to extremities. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Rubbing to joints. Crack to middle of spine. Brown cloth lifting to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good.…