The Book of Household Management. Entirely New Edition. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged. New Coloured Plates and Numerous Full-Page and other Engravings. Several Hundreds on New Recipes for English, French, German, Italian, American, Australian and Indian Cookery. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1901. (685th Thousand). Pp xivi, 1644, with advertisements to rear. Publisher’s quarter red leather cloth boards, spine richly decorated in gilt. A nice bright copy.

Features thousands of recipes and instructions for cooking, including quantities, time, costs, and seasons, directions for carving and trussing.

Additionally, the book contains extraordinarily detailed instructions for the management of children, duties of servants, and information concerning medicine, legal issues, and accounting.

“This book has more wisdom to the square inch than any work of man,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.