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[005103] Beaty-Pownall, S. The ‘Queen’ Cookery Books – Fourteen Volumes Complete. London: Horace Cox, 1902. Reprint. 12mo. Hardback. Good / No Jacket (as Issued?) Fourteen volumes complete, in publisher’s drop front box, 1902-1913 – Volume I, Soups, Third edition, 1904, [7], 2-138pp; Volume II, Ices, Third Edition, 1911, [9], 2-156pp; Volume III, Pickles and Preserves, Second Edition, 1902, [9], 2-196pp; Volume IV, Entrees, Third Edition, 1911, [9], 2-252pp; Volume V, Meat and Game, Second Edition, 1902, [7], 2-241pp, [1]; Volume VI, Sweets Part 1, Third Edition, 1911, [9], 2-131pp, [1]; Volume VII, Sweets Part 2, Third Edition, 1913, [9], 2-128pp; Volume VIII, Breakfast and Lunch Dishes, Third Edition, n.d., [9], 2-119pp, [1]; Volume IX, Salads, Sandwiches, and Savouries, Second Edition, 1905, [9], 2-138pp; Volume X, Vegetables, Second Edition, 1913, [7], 2-155pp, [1]; Volume XI, Bread, Cakes, and Biscuits, Second Edition, 1906, [9], 2-199pp, [1]; Volume XII, Fish Part 1, First Edition, 1903, [9], 2-179pp, [1]; Volume XIII, Fish Part 2 – Cold Fish, First Edition, 1903, [9], 2-112pp, [3], 4-36pp; Volume XIV, Household Hints, Second Edition, 1910, [9], 2-139pp, [1]. Original decorated cloth, titles blocked in black to spines, upper covers in red and black, lowers covers with adverts

Rubbed to extremities, a couple of spines browned (volumes three and twelve especially), texts occasionally lightly browned, but generally fairly clean

Publisher’s box is worn, gilt to front faded, box lid split to one corner, with light stain to top

See Attar 14.1 for the Household Hints volume; Bitting, page 31 for the third volume; and see Driver, pages 95-101 for a myriad of editions