Mrs. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery ...

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., no date (circa 1907). Thick 8vo. Original decorated cloth (top of spine rubbed). Gilt titles to front cover and spine. (752, 8pp.). With colour frontispiece, 15 full-page colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, illustrated advertisements at end, and illustrated endpapers. Recipes printed in double-column. Nice copy. NOTE: Isabella Mary Beeton (n??e Mayson; 1836 ƒ?? 1865), known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. She was considered a strong influence in the building and shaping of the middle-class identity of the Victorian era.