1949 Mrs. Beeton's Household Management

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

An updated edition of Isabella Beaton's Household Management, published by Ward, Lock and Co. in 1949. First published in 1861. 

In the publisher's original cloth, with a colour frontispiece of hors d'oeuvres and savouries. Contains all other charming 15 colour plates and over 300 monochrome illustrations of dishes, food preparation stages and home living. Collated complete.

Contains original advertisements of kitchen products on last 15 pages, as well as on the end papers.

In this updated edition of Mrs. Beaton's beloved cookbook, her domestic and cookery wisdom is applied to postwar Britain. Praised for its longevity, this book prides itself on retaining the same character as the original, only that certain labour intensive processes of the nineteenth century have been made easier due to modcons.