Mrs. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery by Mrs. Isabella Beeton - 1912

London / Melbourne: Ward Lock & Company Limited, 1971. (UK) 4th Printing (1971) No markings, a bit of light rubbing to lower cover edges, Very Good in price-clipped Very Good dust jackt with a couple of minor edge faults and creasing to the spine pnael. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2", plain blue bds with silver spine titles, 639pp. Colour photo frontis. of an array of cakes, 38 colour and B&W plates, a few line illus in text. Messrs Ward Lock bought the copyright of HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT from Sam Beeton in 1867 after the death of Isabella in 1865, just after she had corrected the final proofs of the dictionary version of her book. As early as the 1880 the book was revised and expanded by many people, and by 1906 uder the hand of Herman Senn many of the original recipes were changed and revised. This edition of EVERYDAY COOKERY has been "updated" to the 1960s with photos of "the contemporary kitchen", pressure cookery, diabetic cookery, vegetarian recipes and even a chapter on… Read More

London: Ward Lock, 1969. 1960s reissue, reprint, large 8vo, 639pp, colour and b/w photo illustrations, line drawings; bit of light edge spotting o/w VG Copy, no DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Ward, Lock & Co Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. [1960]. Reprint. Red hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 768pp, [xii] + plates. 40 plates (8 in colour). .

LONDON: WARD LOCK, 1912 Dark Olive Green cloth boards with gilt and black blocked decoration and gilt titles to spine and front,205 x 145 mm approx. Trade adverts to end papers, 752 pp + 8 further pp of trade adverts. Colour frontis + 18 further Colour plates and all mono plates as listed. New Edition 1912. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- restoration work - re- backed by us with new mull and back strip new best match cloth and re cased with no significant disturbance of the end papers and original spine laid on. Some mainly colour rubbing to cloth at board edges but remarkably clean and fresh for year, pencil gift insc. dated 1915 to reverse of half title, some mild to moderate foxing to first and last few signatures and edges of book block extending to margins in varying intensity throughout including reverse of plates, face of same clean with no notable finger soiling or marginalia. No other notable defects. The… Read More