Mrs Beeton: The Book of Household Management - New Edition, 1869

"Mrs Isabella Mary Beeton (1836 - 1865)

She was universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is commonly known as one of the first and best cookery writers, with her Book of Household Management first published in 1861.

Isabella was born at 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London, England. Isabella was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany, for two years where she became an accomplished pianist and afterwards returned to Epsom. With her four step-siblings, she had 20 siblings, a huge family even for the Victorian times. Being the oldest, this is where she honed her abilities in babysitting and general household management, which gave her the experience and confidence to write her famous book.

The day after the birth of her fourth child, in January 1865, Isabella caught puerperal fever. She died a week later, aged 28."

If you are a fan or are studying the Victorian life-style, this book is a must have!  

It is filled with amazingly detailed recipes, advise on food storage, household management, instructions for the Maids and Valet, including legal advice, how to entertain, menu plans adjusted according to amount of guests, etc., etc.,

*** Text on Title Page***

The Book

of 

Household  Management;

Comprising information for the 

- Mistress.
- Housekeeper.
- Cook.
- Kitchen-Maid.
- Butler.
- Footman.
- Coachman.
- Valet.
- Upper and Under Housemaids.
- Lady's-Maid.
- Maid-of-All-Work.
- Laundry-Maid.
- Nurse and Nurse-Maid.
- Monthly, Wet, and Sick Nurses,
Etc., etc.,

Also Sanitary, Medical and Legal Memoranda.

With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of All Things connected with Home Life and Comfort.

By Mrs. Isabella Beeton.

Entirely New Edition, Revised and Corrected,

With new coloured engravings.

Two hundred and fifty-third thousand

London:

WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER,

Warwick House, Paternoster Row.

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NOTE TO THE NEW EDITION.

In this New Edition, I have strive, with feminine aid of the most valuable kind, to make a few improvements upon the original model of this work, and I have infused some new and modern information which, seven years ago, did not exist. The arrangement of the first edition was so well conceived that it admiteed of scarcely any reform; practical, that only the slightest alterations and corrections were needed, except such as Time had rendered necessary.

                                                                                                                                            S.O.Beeton.*

Warwick House, Paternoster Row, 1869

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*S.O.Beeton:

Isabella's husband, Samuel Orchart Beeton. He was a publisher and he was the publisher of her book.

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A great piece of history and account of Victorian Life! 

1139 Pages

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L'Exposition Universelle de 1900 - Paris - Art Nouveau

Les 

Industries Artistiques

Francaises et Etrangeres

L'Exposition Universelle de 1900

In 1900, the world witnessed a grand display of Art Nouveau jewels, objects, and architecture at Paris’s Exposition Universelle.

Planning began for the 1900 Paris Exposition in 1892. At this time, French expositions were a government affair, not a private one. Since the end of the eighteenth century, the state had sponsored regular exhibitions in Paris, mostly to showcase national industrial goods and fine arts. Throughout the years these national expositions steadily grew in size and ambition.

In one sense, the Exposition in 1900 was the beginning of the end. With over fifty million people attending the Exposition, the movement's artists gained a wide audience. One needn’t possess a crystal ball to see the effect: increased demand for the pieces, lowered manufacturing and design standards, and a resultant faltering of the originality and artistic care central to the movement.

By 1910, Art Nouveau had all but died. The Exposition of 1900 thereafter has been seen as the movement’s greatest moment and, at the same time, the start of a precipitous and unfortunate decline.

Find much more info on this exhibition here.

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Condition of the book: very good.

All plates are still with guard papers and there is an abundance of the most beautiful examples of Art Nouveau design of all kinds. A great piece of visual design history!

The first 50 pages are descriptive text and an index of the pieces exhibited.

The photos below show but just a few of the many plates in this magnificent catalogue:

The book is available in our online shop.