First published by Thomas Nelson in 1966

Revised edition published by Scolar Press in 1979

University Paperback edition published in 1983 by

Methuen & Co. Ltd

Reprinted 1985

Third edition published in 1989 by

Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN

Reprinted 1990, 1994

Transferred to Digital Printing 2005

© John Burnett 1966, 1979, 1989

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Burnett, John, 1925

Plenty and want: a social history of food in England from 1815 to the present day. — 3rd ed.

1. England. Man. Diet, l8l5-1987.

Socioeconomic aspects

I. Title

306′.3

ISBN 0–415–00862–X Pbk