Mrs Beeton's Every Day Cookery

752pp plus sections of contemporary adverts. Elaborately decorated boards, in the style of Edwardian gift books, with gilded lettering and finishes and three colour printing. (Boards a little rubbed and faded, cracking at spine ends). Internally neat, clean and crisp, barring endpapers which appear a little aged and rusted. With numerous colour and other plate illustrations throughout. 1000s of recipes plus sections on an introduction to cooking, work in the kitchen, food and cookery, invalid cookery, foreign and colonial cookery, carving at the table, trussing poultry and game, menu-making, how to wait at table etc. A very unusual edition of Mrs Beeton, distinctive for its find binding rather than the usual very practical binding. Hard to find. A large and heavy volume which will likely require an additional charge for international delivery.