Book of Household Management Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly, Wet, and Sick Nurses, Etc. Etc. Also Sanitary, Medical, and Legal Memoranda. With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Use of All Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort.

BEETON, Mrs

Published by S.O. Beeton, London, 1861

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Full Description: BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. The Book of Household Management. Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly, Wet, and Sick Nurses, Etc. Etc. Also Sanitary, Medical, and Legal Memoranda. With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Use of All Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. First edition, first issue with [18 ] Bouverie St on the illustrated title-page, and the first line of the errata is for page 57. Thick octavo (6 7/8 x 4 5/16 inches; 175 x 110 mm). xxxix, [1, blank], 1112 pp. With forty-seven color illustrations on twelve color-plates and a color-plate frontispiece and an additional colored, engraved title-page. Numerous other textual black and white images. Nineteenth-century half red morocco over red cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. All edges dyed brown. Board edges and corners a bit rubbed. Repairs to inner gutter margins of engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and title-page. Foxing, toning and some soiling throughout as expected of a cookbook. Previous owner's bookplate on rear pastedown. Still overall a very good copy. "[Isabella Beeton is remembered] for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton's Book of Household Management, which in its various editions made Mrs Beeton a household name in a double sense. Its success, however, also rested on its quality, especially the combination of clear structure and precise detail. Recipes, for example, were arranged alphabetically in sections, with ingredients, prices, weights, and cooking times all precisely stated. The book's style moved easily between detailed instructions and neat aphorisms. For Mrs Beeton, a people's way of taking their meals, as well as their way of treating women were marks of civilization. Dining well implies both the will and the skill to reduce to order, and surround with idealisms and grace, the more material conditions of human existence . That will and skill she showed in large measure." (Dictionary of National Biography). HBS 69437. $1,200.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Book of Household Management Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly, Wet, and Sick Nurses, Etc. Etc. Also Sanitary, Medical, and Legal Memoranda. With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Use of All Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort.
• Publisher: S.O. Beeton, London
• Publication Date: 1861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Color-Plate Books
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  • Cookery and Wine