Isabelle Beeton (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This 1913 New Edition represents the early 20th century evolution of the Beeton brand: streamlined, practical, and aimed at the modern Edwardian household. Unlike the sprawling Victorian Household Management, All About Cookery distilled the most useful culinary material into a portable, affordable handbook for everyday use. The 1913 issue sits at an interesting moment: pre-war domesticity, rising middle-class expectations of efficiency, and the growing standardisation of British cookery. It typically includes clear, economical recipes, household hints, and instructional diagrams, making it both a functional period piece and a collectible example of Ward, Lock's prolific Beeton reprint programme. Brown boards, ornate cover and spine, clean copy.

Condition: Bon. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The 1909 Every Day Cookery captures the Beeton brand at a moment when British domestic publishing was shifting toward compact, utilitarian handbooks for the modern Edwardian household. This volume distils the most practical culinary content, soups, economical cuts, puddings, preserves, and household hints, into a format intended for constant kitchen use. Its appeal today lies in both its domestic history and its material culture. For collectors, it represents the transition from Victorian abundance to early 20th-century efficiency, and for cooks, it remains a charming window into pre-war British home life. Green cloth boards, ornate cover and spine, minor foxing front end page.

Condition: Assez bon. Attention: Ancien support de bibliothèque, plastifié, étiquettes. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mrs. Beeton's Household Management. A Complete Cookery Book, with sections on Household Work, Servants Duties, Labour-saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Carving and Trussing, The Art of "Using-Up". Table Decoration, The Home Doctor, The Nursery, The Home Lawyer, etc. New Edition; Thick Post 8vo; pp. xvi, 1680, 10 (advertisements); original advertising endpapers, coloured frontispiece, illustrated with 32 full page plates in colour, and nearly 700 illustrations, analytical index, original decorated cloth binding, embossed decoration on spine, title lettered in gilt on spine, minor foxing throughout, otherwise a very good sound copy. Heavy book and will require additional postage.