Ink inscription to half-title; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket quite badly chipped with some loss.
Plates and illustrations. Advertisements.
£150
London, Ward, Lock, 1907.
‘New Edition’. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated cloth. Dust-jacket.
One of many post-Beeton revised and expanded editions issued by Ward, Lock after they acquired the copyright. Isabella Beeton (1836–1865) died aged 28; the book that bears her name had already gone through numerous transformations by this date.
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