(London: Ward, Lock and Co., [circa 1920]).

ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS PRODUCTIONS OF "THE FINEST HOUSEKEEPER IN THE WORLD" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This whooping tome of well over 1500 pages features not only countless recipes but general tips on food buying and preparation, table-setting, housework, servants, laundry, etiquette, decorating and a whole lot more. If you want to be sure you're folding those napkins properly, laying out the correct china and trussing that roast right you really need to get this book. Item #32984

A New Edition. With 32 plates in colour and nearly 700 illustrations on double-sided black and white plates. Thick 8vo, publisher s original olive -tan cloth backed in polished red cloth embossed in blind in an elaborate dentil manner with gilt lettering, the end-leaves, both pastedowns and flies with colourful advertisements for soaps and sauces, peas, appliances, sardines, and etc., in the rarely seen dustjacket. xvi, 1680 pp. An unusually bright and attractive copy, if this was ever used at all it was certainly by the tidiest cook imaginable, the paper is fresh, clean, unsoiled and with no spotting, the plates are all quite fine, the hinges strong, rare for such a massive textblock and the binding in excellent state of preservation. The rare dustjacket shows a bit of wear at the edges, but is remarkably well preserved.