French Country Cooking
( John MINTON, illus. ) DAVID, Elizabeth
Decorated by John Minton.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: John Lehmann, [1951]
Stock code: 42294
Price: £495.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title, and numerous full-page and smaller illustrations in the text, very faint contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original holland cloth, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip and with small loss at lower edge of rear panel.
David's second book, and to many the finest of the three classic titles that changed the nature of English cookery for ever. In common with her first work 'A Book of Mediterranean Food' this volume is greatly enhanced by the wonderful Minton illustrations. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.