A Guide to Cookery in all Branches
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management A Guide to Cookery in all Branches
Ward, Lock & Co. 1915.
New edition, revised, enlarged and fully illustrated. 8vo. Chunky book quarter bound in faux red leather with green buckram boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on the spine. With 32 colour plates and many other illustrations. A very good copy, with some light rubbing to the corners.
Isabella Beeton (1831-1865) was the eldest child of an extended family of twenty-one, and was required from an early age to take care of domestic arrangements. Shortly after her marriage to Samuel Beeton, a small publisher, she began to contribute to his Domestic Magazine and in time the magazine was issued with a supplement devoted to cookery and domestic economy. In 1861 her writings were published in book form for the first time. It was an immediate success, selling over 60,000 copies in its first year of publication and nearly two million by 1868. As well as recipes the book contained advice regarding household management, childcare, etiquette, entertaining and the employment of servants. This is one of the most famous of all cookery books.
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