Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, also published as Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book, is an extensive guide to running a household in Victorian Britain, edited by Isabella Beeton and first publish
Title page: the first edition did not use the "Mrs." of later editions.
Presentation of fish dishes: filleted soles, boiled salmon, cod's head and shoulders
First page of the first chapter of Book of Household Management
Full-page 1907 colour plate of types of fish to buy from the fishmonger: red mullet, grayling, John Dory, mackerel, cod, whiting, salmon, herring, plaice, flounder, gurnet, crayfish
Hannah Glasse
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Hannah Glasse was an English cookery writer. Her first book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747, became the best-selling recipe book that century. It was reprinted within its fi
Glasse's signature at the top of the first chapter of her book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, 6th Edition, 1758
St Andrews, Holborn, where Glasse was christened
The 1770 edition
The 1828 edition