Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book: All About Cookery, Household Work, Marketing, Trussing, Carving, Etc.

by Beeton, Isabel, Mary [Mrs. Beaton]

$250 · Offered by Biblio

London: Ward, Lock Co. Limited. Good. 1913. New Edition. Hardcover. 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 6 - 7 tall; Mrs. Beeton s Cookery Book, Cookery, Household Work, Household Marketing, Trussing, Carving, Vintage Cookbooks .

• Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited
• Year: 1913
• Edition: New Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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