The book of household management : comprising information for the mistress ... also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda; with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort / by Mrs. Isabella Beeton.
Isabella Beeton's household manual, published by Ward, Lock and Co. in London in 1869, instructing middle-class British housewives in cookery, marketing, servants, and home remedies. Small wood-engraved cuts sit inline with the text, showing vegetables, mushrooms, poultry and pigeons in crosshatched shorthand against blank ground, useful as recipe-page spot art, menu ornaments, or food-label motifs.
