Mrs Beaton (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. Covers very faintly marked; light wear to head and tail of spine; binding firm; occasional foxing, otherwise contents vg; 219p, plates, glossary. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. WARD LOCK & CO Hard cover dated 1961 to internal inscription. Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Shipped from the U/K. Images available on request.

2nd. Edn. pp. viii, 246. With portrait frontispiece. 17 black & white plates. A history with reminisences of the Parish of Rayne. A very good plus hardback copy. In the original red pebble grained cloth with gilt lettered spine. Includes an excellent 18pp.glossary of old Aberdeenshire words and a 21pp. appendix of old proverbs and phrases.…

A visually appealing California cabinet card of a woman in Scottish Highland dress, identified as Mrs. Norman Beaton. The portrait likely relates to Scottish immigrant, ethnic, theatrical, or fraternal culture in late nineteenth-century California, where Scottish societies, Caledonian clubs, Highland games, and public costume display helped maintain and perform ethnic identity. The 1900 census counted roughly 1,140 Scotland-born residents in Alameda County and more than 2,000 in nearby San Francisco, giving late nineteenth-century Oakland a small but visible Scottish-American context for portraits of this kind. Light wear, toning, and soiling; very good. Cabinet card photograph measuring approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Full-length studio portrait of an identified woman, Mrs. Norman Beaton, posed in Highland dress with plaid skirt, sash, cap, and shoulder brooch before a painted landscape backdrop. Photographer?s imprint on mount: ?F. M. Harkness / 556 12th St. / East Oakland.. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Edition. 380, 6 [ads] pages. Index. 7.5" x 5". Several colour and black and white plates. Attractively embossed front board. Vintage ads on endpapers. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his great study of married life, entitled 'A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus,' makes his heroine say - 'Mrs. Beeton must have been the finest housekeeper in the world. Therefore, Mr. Beeton must have been the happiest and most comfortable man'; and his hero concludes that Mrs. Beeton's book 'has more wisdom to the square inch than any work of man'. - Preface. Binding sound. Small recipe taped to verso of frontispiece. Name inside front board. Average wear to publisher's red cloth. A sound vintage copy. Wheaton & Kelly 562.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, Cookery, Household Work, Household Marketing, Trussing, Carving, Vintage Cookbooks.…