BEETON (ISABELLA) Beeton's Book of Household Management, FIRST EDITION IN 24 ORIGINAL PARTS, S.O. Beeton, 1859-1861BEETON (ISABELLA)Beeton's Book of Household Management, FIRST EDITION IN 24 ORIGINAL PARTS, wood-engraved colour-printed frontispiece and title-page in part 1, 12 colour plates, vignette engravings in text, advertisements in parts 1, 2 (printed on yellow paper, with prospectus for this work), 5, 13 (for Christmas Annual with subscription form), 14 and 19, publisher's buff and rose pictorial wrappers, five parts numbered in ink, covers to part 1 and lower cover of part 17 detached, some loss to most spines, preserved in cloth solander box, 8vo (188 x 120mm.), S.O. Beeton, [1859-1861]RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL COOKERY BOOK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The publisher's prospectus, bound in part 2, noted that the work was intended to be completed "in 15 or 18 parts", but it was eventually expanded to twenty-four, as first announced on the front wrappers of part 19. Published in book form upon the completion of its parts issue in October 1861, Mrs. Beeton's Household Management had sold nearly 2 million copies by 1868, and has remained in print ever since. "Its success... rested on its quality, especially the combination of clear structure and precise detail. Recipes, for example, were arranged alphabetically in sections, with ingredients, prices, weights, and cooking times all precisely stated" (ODNB).Provenance: Mrs. F. Parks, early ownership signature to front wrapper of several parts; Robert H. & Donna L. Jackson, bookplate; Bonhams, New York, The Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Collection, 18 October 2011, lot 201.