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BEETON, Isabella Mary (1836-1865). The Book of Household Management, London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. 8° (175 x 105mm.). Chromolithographed frontispiece, additional title and 12 plates, illustrations. (Occasional mainly light spotting and dampstaining, a few foremargins slightly fraying with short tears, two leaves with old repairs). Contemporary half calf. (Rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Attar p.87; Bitting p.32: "This is one of the earliest cookery books using colored illustrations. This is the 1st edition of an important English work".
Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery, London: S. O. Beeton, 1865. 8° (187 x 119mm.). Half title, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting, corners of endpapers and pastedowns browned). Contemporary half calf. (Rubbed). Provenance: early signatures on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. "One of the series of Beeton's All about it books published between 1865 and 1879" (Attar p.88). (2)
Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery, London: S. O. Beeton, 1865. 8° (187 x 119mm.). Half title, illustrations. (Occasional light spotting, corners of endpapers and pastedowns browned). Contemporary half calf. (Rubbed). Provenance: early signatures on front pastedown. FIRST EDITION. "One of the series of Beeton's All about it books published between 1865 and 1879" (Attar p.88). (2)
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