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1914 Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
New edition. With a folding colour frontispiece, nineteen colour plates, and numerous black-and-white images. Collated complete. This volume acts as an introduction to cookery, the kitchen and breaks downs different aspects of cooking, from bread and cakes to menu making and household recipes. Comprising a series of practical recipes and menu ideas for various family and party sizes. Written by Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, an English journalist, editor and writer particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear.
Condition
In the original quarter calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities resulting in small splits to the cloth at the board edges. Fading to the spine with a 4" crack to the front joint and minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spotting throughout and light age toning to the endpapers. Pages 13/14 from the list of illustrations have been removed.
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