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BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. The Book of Household Management … Entirely New Edition, with New Coloured Engravings. Two hundred and twenty-ninth thousand.
London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, (187-?) 8vo., original publisher's binding, red leather spine, cloth boards, gilt decoration on spine. xl, 1139pp. (with pp. 403-414 misbound after p. 1138, but all pages are present). With twelve chromolithographed plates (p. 683 bound in at p. 910). Chipping and wear to spine, outer front hinge cracked, cloth somewhat grubby, a good copy only.
First published in 1861, Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was a staple in Victorian kitchens.