London: S.O. Beeton, no date (1862). Volumes 1 (1855) and 2 (1856) bound together in publisher's cloth. Green wave grain cloth elaborated decorated and lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, decorated in blind on rear cover, all edges gilt, cream endpapers. Vol. I: pp viii, 376 + illustrated half-title and folding plate at p.1. Vol. II: pp viii, 376 + frontispiece illustration and illustrated half-title. Index at front. Tipped in slip at rear advertising a new and revised edition of Beeton's Penny Dictionary, with the first number due 31 May, 1862. Text in double columns with many vignette illustrations. Just a few soil spots in text; pp 57-58 of volume II a little darkened and with small chips in margins, professionally repaired with rice paper (no text lost); half-title of Vol. I lacks a piece of the lower inner corner and is mounted on cream paper; front free endpaper of Vol. I renewed with cream paper; otherwise quite nice, externally near fine. Beeton published the magazine 1855-74. The New Series was published 1863-70. ; Octavo