BEETON, Mrs Isabella.

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The Book of Household Management; First edition of the domestic bible of the Victorian age, the first book to supplant the household culinary authority, Hannah Glasse's Art of Cookery, first published in 1747. This copy is a second issue, with "Bouverie St" corrected to "248 Strand" on the illustrated title page, bound without the rare frontispiece.In its first year of publication, Beeton's Book of Household Management sold 60,000 copies, and two million had been sold by 1868. Despite its author's death four years after publication, the book has been constantly updated and its popularity has lived on to the present day. As well as comprising over 900 pages of recipes, illustrated, for the first time in this genre of book production, with colour plates, Beeton's boldly comprehensive text also contains guidance on home economics and general home life. It was serialized in 24 monthly parts between 1859 and 1861.Provenance: Richard Bethell, 4th Baron Westbury (1914-1961), culinary book collector, with his Westbury bookplate and three bookmarkers loosely inserted (sold in his sale, 15-16 February 1965). Westbury spent the last years of his life in Rome specializing in Italian culinary history and writing his much referenced Handlist of Italian Cookery Books (1963) and With Gusto and Relish (1957).

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