Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery

768pp plus plate illustrations and section of unpaginated contemporary advertisements at rear. Green cloth-covered boards with blind decorations on edges and black titles. (Boards a little rubbed at edges.) Library bookplate on front paste down endpaper and scar opposite; small portion of corner missing on p15, some signs of spotting and fingering but generally clean and neat. Monochrome and plate illustrations throughout. About 2,500 recipes and sections on labour saving, carving and trussing, table napkins, household work etc. .