Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. An Illustrated Journal, combining Practical Information, Instruction, & Amusement.

Samuel Beeton; Isabella Beeton

Verlag: Clarke, Beeton, and Co. c1854-7, London, 1854

Beschreibung

Volumes II and V of the Beetons' illustrated domestic magazine. Vols II and V of this popular monthly magazine. Initially priced at 2d, it was the first cheap magazine for middleclass women, an immediate success.Co-edited by Samuel Beeton and his wife Isabella, this magazine started its publication in 1856. This copy was dated from its prefaces. From 1860 the price increased and the magazine became directed to a wealthier readership, featuring coloured plates and more emphasis on fiction and fashion.Featuring articles of domestic management, embroidery patterns, cooking, dress-making, and translations of French novels by Isabella Beeton, as well as a range of serial fiction, biographical sketches, notes on gardening and medicine, &c.Illustrated with a frontispiece and additional illustrated title page to each volume, as well as numerous further illustrations in text. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, damp marks to boards and spine, particularly to vol. V. Joan Dawson's pictorial bookplate to front free endpaper vol. II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally very clean throughout. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 846A18

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. An ...

Verlag: Clarke, Beeton, and Co. c1854-7, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1854

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: Not Stated

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book