book of household management
Subtitle: 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
By: by Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
Contributors: Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Spottiswoode & Co.
Publisher: S. O.  Beeton
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1112
Subjects: Cookery, English.; Home economics.
Other titles: Household management; Beeton's book of household management; Household management
Notes: On spine: Beeton's Household management.

Added wood-engraved ill. t.p.

Includes "Analytical Index.": p. [vii]-xxxviii.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-4 at end.

Colour wood-engraved plates printed within decorative blue and red rule border.  All are with captions and unsigned.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.   A few are signed: "H. Weir" or "H. W.".

RBSC Copy: Title page wanting; supplied by photostat.  Plate 1 wanting.

MASS copy: Bound in blue bead-grain cloth blocked in gold.  Spine re-backed with dark blue morocco.  With presentation inscription dated 1862.