Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery, with nearly 3,000 practical recipes. London: Ward, Locke & Co., N.d. (ca. early 1930's). Heavy 8vo. Color frontis. plate, 896pp., profusely illustrated with 20 full page color plates, as well as b/w photos, menus, suggestions for the labour-saving devices used in doing laundry, indices,
several ads. Quarter navy pressed leather over blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, ads as endpapers. Corners & covers slightly rubbed, else tight, generally Good. For this edition, the editors wish to point out the
new chapters on
Indian Cookery, American & Canadian Cookery, Australian Cookery, South African Cookery, Austrian-German Cookery, French Cookery, and
Italian Cookery. The Classic.