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Beeton's Every-day cookery and housekeeping book : comprising instructions for mistress and servants, and a collection of over fifteen hundred practical receipts. With 104 Coloured Plates, showing the proper mode of sending dishes to table.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX717 .B44 1875 Blank copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, English.
- Cooking--Dictionaries.
- Cooking.
- Home economics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- lxiv, 404 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Every-day cookery and housekeeping book
- Mrs Beeton's everyday cookery
- Mrs Beeton's dictionary of everyday cookery
- Dictionary of everyday cookery
- Place of Publication:
- London : Ward, Lock, and Co., [1875?]
- Contents:
- The Philosophy of Housekeeping
- The Dictionary of Cookery
- Recipes for Serving the Dishes Illustrated on The Coloured Plates.
- Notes:
- Cover title: Mrs Beeton's everyday cookery. Spine title: Mrs Beeton's dictionary of every day cookery.
- Front and back paste-downs and free endpapers have advertisements printed on bright yellow paper.
- Dictionary of Cookery printed in two columns.
- Obituary of Isabella Mary Beeton printed on page [373].
- Publisher's advertisements (2 pages) follow obituary for Mrs. Beeton. Then "Recipes for Serving the Dishes Illustrated on the Coloured Plates" reprinted from "Philosophy of Housekeeping" on pages numbered 13 (sic), 374-404.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements: 24 pages at end.
- Burgundy boards with black leather spine stamped in gold "3/6 104 Coloured Plates".
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has 4 leaves of double color plates only.
- Kislak copy has spine and front free endpaper completely disbound.
- OCLC:
- 22164093
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