Item #11011 Mrs Beeton's Household Management. Isabella Beeton.
Mrs Beeton's Household Management
Mrs Beeton's Household Management
Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

London: Ward, Lock & Co, [ca.1938].
Second-hand hardcover

Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton's Household Management: a complete cookery book. Ward, Lock & Co: London, [ca.1938]. 8vo (215x145mm) qtr bnd, red gilt lettered, blindstamped cloth, khaki bds, a.e. speckled red, xvi,1680,16pp, 32 colour plates


BEETON, Isabella [Mrs Isabella Mary, née Mayson (1836-1865)]

Mrs Beeton's Household Management: a complete cookery book with sections on household work, servants' duties, labour-saving, laundry work, etiquette, marketing etc., carving and trussing, the art of "Using-Up", table decoration, the home doctor, the nursery, the home lawyer, etc..

London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co, undated, circa 1938¹. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome and London.

Demy Octavo (215x145mm) quarter bound, red waxed buckram, gilt lettered, blind-stamped spine, khaki boards, all edges speckled red, xvi,1680,16pp : π⁸,A - 3G¹⁶, χ⁸.   Thirty-two out-of-text, full page chromolithographic colour plates, one hundred and twenty-eight out-of-text full page monochrome plates, comprising approximately 700 illustrations.  As usual, lacks the plain printed dust jacket; faint occasional foxing, mostly to the margins; small signs of kitchen use, particularly to the baking pages; cnrs faintly worn.


¶    A reprint of the 1936 edition, with more than 4,000 recipes, about half of which were contributed or adapted by C Herman Senn in the editions published between 1905 and 1923.  Most of the recipes have a parallel name in French (a la Senn).  In contrast to early editions, the recipes are not numbered but ordered alphabetically.  Chapters 53 - 60 cover Dominion and Foreign cookery.  Chapter 53, has approximately 90 'Australian' recipes, most repeated from earlier editions, featuring indigenous ingredients such as Kangaroo, Barramundi, Trumpeter, Schnapper, Gill Birds, Parrot, Murray Perch, Bandicoot and a range of other birds, fruits and vegetables (particularly pumpkin).  Several of the recipes are for New Zealand game.  

The identity of the editor(s) of this edition is unknown.  There are many small changes from earlier editions, however, Mrs Beeton's Household Management still contains one recipe directly attributable to Isabella Beeton, albeit somewhat abridged, her Benevolent Soup at p.158. 

An excellent inter-war copy of the penultimate 'major' edition of Mrs Beeton's The Book of Household Management.


§   Well held internationally, OCLC records 8 holdings in Australasia. 

¹  p.1499 refers to legislation passed in 1938 to come into force in 1939.  The preface refers to World War I and not World War II.  The colour plates are those used in the inter-war editions, and subsequently destroyed in the Blitz in 1940.  The paper is not war economy paper.  P.1503 mentions 1940 and 1941 probably prospectively.

Item #11011

Price: $450.00 AUD

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