Hammer

£10

'TWO COOKERY BOOKS: MRS BEETON: 'Mrs Beeton's Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book', Ward Lock. Front hinge is loose but hanging on! Some marks to boards. The title continues: 'comprising instructions for mistress and servants, and a collection of over sixteen hundred and fifty PRACTICAL RECEIPTS. With numerous wood engravings AND one hundred and forty-two Coloured Figures, showing the proper mode of sending dishes to table'. Possibly published after her (early) death, this is still a very early copy (undated). Comes with CHANTRAINE, C., 'La Cuisine Chantraine', 'a complete collection of recipes created at the restaurant Chantraine in Brussels' SIGNED and dedicated by the author.