NMLP P-038320 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Book of Household Management

Isabella Beeton · S. O. Beeton, London · 1861

No book-club issue in the period, but "Mrs Beeton" is among the most reprinted books in English: S. O. Beeton and successor houses kept the plates working for decades under near-identical titles, and later editions are heavily revised, re-set and expanded. Modern facsimiles of the 1861 first edition (Southover Press among others) are common and identify themselves on the copyright page. The 1861 book itself is scarce; the ubiquitous copies are later editions.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038320 for "The Book of Household Management" by Isabella Beeton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038320, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).