The Book of Household Management. A Guide to Cookery in All Branches. Daily Duties, Mistress & Servant, Hostess & Guest, Marketing, Trussing & Carving, Menu Making, Home Doctor, Sick Nursing, The Nursery, Home Lawyer
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1912 ('New edition, revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated')/ 1861.
Thick octavo, viii, 2040, 16 (advertisements) pages with 15 pages of illustrations (how to fold serviettes) plus 128 pages of black and white plates, 32 colour plates (2 of them double-page), an advertising leaf (after page 8) and endpaper advertisements. All advertisements are printed in two colours.
Original quarter gilt-decorated red leather and slate-green cloth bumped at the corners, with slight wear to the ends of the spine; trifling signs of use and age, but a very good (or better) copy, now protected with our Mylar dustwrapper.
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