1861 The Book of Household Management

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

The first edition, first impression of this work, with 18 Bouverie St stated to the illustrated title page, and the farmyard frontispiece.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour illustrated title page, twelve colour plates, and in-text engravings. 

Collated and complete.

Isabella Beeton's comprehensive guide to cookery, with a wide variety of recipes, advice for the organisation of kitchens and larders, marketing, and a calendar of food in season. She also gave advice on table decorations, how to wait a table, how to set a table, and how to carve meats and fish. Some of the recipes included vary from meat, poultry, salads, tarts, cold sweets, sandwiches, bread, jams, and icing.

This is an interesting look at life in a Victorian household, and the running of it.

Beeton's work was originally serialised as 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine' in twenty-four monthly instalments in 'The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine', her husband's publication. Her work has been constantly expanded over time, and is still in print.