BEETON ISABELLA MARY The Book of Household Management 1861

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BEETON, ISABELLA MARY. The Book of Household Management. Color-printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional title, and 12 plates showing prepared dishes; wood-engraved text illustrations throughout. 8vo, modern calf with morocco lettering piece; last leaf tipped to rear endleaf; moderate foxing of text, plate facing page 372 browned along edges and reinforced with clear tape, remaining plates clean. London, 1861

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first edition in book form, first printing, of the best-selling English cookbook and household manual of the Victorian era, originally published in 24 monthly parts, 1859-61. Beeton died in 1865 at the age of 28 shortly after the birth of her fourth child. Bitting, page 32; Cagle 562.