c1882 The Book of Household Management

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The three hundredth and sixty-first thousand of this immensely popular work.

Collated, illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ten further colour plates. Lacking plate X. With further vignette illustrations.

First published in 1861, this extensive guide to managing a household was a best-selling book. By 1868, it had sold nearly two million copies, making it an extremely popular guide held as standard by many at the time. By 1907, the work spanned over two thousand pages. After her death in 1865, Beeton's guidebook continued in its popularity and saw countless edition and revision throughout the following centuries, keeping it up to date with contemporary tastes.

With contemporary advertisements to the front and rear of the work.

A smart late nineteenth century edition of Beeton's popular work.