
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 5•
BEETON (ISABELLA) The Book of Household Management, FIRST EDITION, S.O. Beeton, 1861
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £701.25 inc. premium
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BEETON (ISABELLA)
The Book of Household Management... also Sanitary, Medical, & Legal Memoranda; with a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort, FIRST EDITION, colour lithographed frontispiece, additional pictorial title (with "18 Bouverie St" address) and 12 colour plates, numerous wood-engravings, some foxing and soiling, frontispiece stained at gutter and near detached, plate at p.113 with tear and slight chip at edge, x2 cut along outer edge with loss of text, some worming in upper margin of last few leaves, modern half calf gilt, spine gilt with raised bands and red morocco label [Bitting p.32; Simon BG 186], small thick 8vo, S.O. Beeton, 248 Strand, W.C., 1861