Author: BEETON, ISABEL, MARY [MRS. BEATON]
Title: Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book: All About Cookery, Household Work, Marketing, Trussing, Carving, Etc.
Description: London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1913. New Edition. Hardcover. 380, 6 [ads] pages. Index. 7.5" x 5". Several colour and black and white plates. Attractively embossed front board. Vintage ads on endpapers. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in his great study of married life, entitled 'A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus,' makes his heroine say - 'Mrs. Beeton must have been the finest housekeeper in the world. Therefore, Mr. Beeton must have been the happiest and most comfortable man'; and his hero concludes that Mrs. Beeton's book 'has more wisdom to the square inch than any work of man'. - Preface. Binding sound. Small recipe taped to verso of frontispiece. Name inside front board. Average wear to publisher's red cloth. A sound vintage copy. Wheaton & Kelly 562.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, Cookery, Household Work, Household Marketing, Trussing, Carving, Vintage Cookbooks. Good .

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