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Jonathan Glancey conducts an I. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Hardcover The Shorter Mrs Beeton (Concise Edition of Beeton's Book of Household Management An almost forgotten classic though a founding text of Victorian middle-class identity,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management is a volume of insight and common sense. Written by what one might now describe as a Victorian Martha Stewart, the book offers advice on fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy verbosity or heavy moralizing, Beeton's book is a revelation: it explores the foods of Europe and beyond, suggesting new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism and gender roles. Alternately frugal and fashionable, anxious and self confident, the book highlights the concerns of the growing Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. This abridged edition serves as a cookery book, while documenting a significant aspect of Victorian social and cultural history. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto. Hardcover.…

Condition: Poor. Inside Page Torn This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN.

Hardcover in green boards wit red cloth spine, 2056+ pages, fair to good condition, the an inch of loss at top of spine; front and rear hinges split but still attached; scattered losses to spine; brown spotting to outer page edges and some inner page edges. Foreign shipping may be extra.