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Title
The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's maid, maid-of-all work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. Also, sanitary, medical & legal memoranda, with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort
Creator
Beeton, (Isabella Mary), Mrs, 1836-1865
Date Created and/or Issued
1861 i.e. 1859-1861
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
American Institute of Wine & Food Culinary Collection
Rights Information
Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Text
Engraved title page and frontispiece issued in no. 1, printed t.p. and prelims. issued in no. 24. Engraved t.p. included in plate count
Engraved title page: Beeton's book of household management
Issued in monthly parts, Nov.1859-Oct. 1861, cf. notice on pt. 8 dated May 1860
The various classes of persons printed in 3 cols. on t.p
Includes index
Parts I-X have on p. [1] of wrappers: To be completed in from 15 to 18 monthly parts
Various advertising inserts passim
London, S.O. Beeton ...
By Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Type
text
Format
24 pts. (xxxix, [1], 1112 pages, [14] leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb61550062
Language
English
Subject
Home economics
Cooking, English

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