Cookery.- Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, second issue (with Strand address, and first line of errata corrected to 'Page 657'), colour-printed wood-engraved additional pictorial title and 12 chromolithographed plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, without frontispiece (?as issued), front free endpaper torn away, the odd spot or small stain, but overall very good, 19th century half morocco, spine gilt but slightly faded, rubbing to extremities, [Bitting p.32], 8vo, [Spottiswoode & Co. for] S.O. Beeton, 1861.
⁂ "This is one of the earliest cookery books using colored illustrations" (Bitting). The second issue was seemingly issued without the frontispiece present in the first issue.
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