Mrs. Beeton's Household Management. A Complete Cookery Book ... New Edition
London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [1920s].
Stout octavo, xvi, 1680, [10] (advertisements, including flyleaves) pages plus '32 plates in colour and nearly 700 illustrations' and advertisements on the pastedowns.
Contrasting quarter red and olive-green cloth, with the spine extensively decorated in blind; red-speckled edges a little discoloured; cloth on the top corner of the rear cover slightly damp-affected, with loss of colour in a few small spots; a very good copy (internally excellent).
'All the old cookery recipes have been carefully re-tested, and the details modified, wherever necessary, to suit present-day conditions ... The book contains more than 4,000 recipes, many of which are contributed or adapted bt Mr. C. Herman Senn ... assisted by some of the most famous chefs and teachers of the culinary arts' (preface).
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