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Food & Drink
Find rare and antiquarian cookery and drinks books, for the bon viveurs, gourmands, gastronomes, Masterchef devotees alongside lovers of the occasional tipple. A section of book collecting that spans the centuries, from antiquarian cookery books full of arcane recipes to the Victorian etiquette many of us still endure, onto the joys of cooking supplied by Elizabeth David and her contemporaries, our selection of collectable food and drink books should fill any appetite.
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First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. Very minor rubbing at the spine but a beautiful copy.
£275 -
Second edition (revised and expanded); 8vo; illustrations by John Minton, gift inscription to front pastedown, light toning to leaves; publisher's orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine on a brown ground, with the pictorial dust-jacket by John Minton, light toning to edges, slight spotting, spine slightly darkened, light edge-wear, front panel chipped with loss, overall a very good copy.
£275 -
Single volume, complete, 123 pp. with 56pp. publisher's catalogue at end, printed with interfoliated ruled paper (for manuscript notes and additions), lightly browned else very crisp, manuscript gift inscription to front free endpaper; original brown pictorial cloth, very lightly soiled and corners slightly bumped, a very good copy.
£2,500 -
First edition, first impression, with illustrated title page by Edward Bawden. 8vo. Publisher's grey boards printed in green and red after a design by Bawden. In the Bawden designed dust jacket. Bookshop label to front pastedown, some minor foxing early and late but a superior copy in the price-clipped dust jacket with a trace of the all too typical rubbing.
£200 -
8vo (250 x 150 mm); main text in double columns, illustrated with 6 colour chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece and numerous engravings, some full-page, the occasional spot, otherwise near-fine; publisher's red cloth gilt, with decorated boards and spine, some wear to extremities, browning of flyleaves and edges, otherwise a very good copy in a handsome binding.
£250 -
Third edition, revised; 8vo (140 x 220 mm); occasional minor spotting orfinger-soiling but in the main very good; bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards, some wear to extremities, ownership signatures to upper endpapers and at head of titles, otherwise very good and sound.
£1,500 -
Fifth edition, revised and enlarged; small 8vo (155 x 120 mm); decorative headpiece vignettes, the odd, minor spot and pencil marginalia, else very good; publisher's grey cloth with black titles repeating title-page, extremities a little worn and stained, otherwise a very good copy; ink manuscript 'Chapatty recipe' loosely inserted.
£350 -
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; oblong 4to; publisher's pictorial boards, printed endpapers, with the original polythene dust jacket with the price label intact. An excellent copy in the somewhat nicked and lightly baggy jacket. This is the first example in the dust jacket we have handled.
£475 -
Third edition, revised & expanded; 8vo; 255 woodcut illustrations by Eug. Vergez, half-title, 5pp. 'bibliographie vinicole' at the end, some mild marginal toning and spotting, but overall internally very good; [ý]original, drab green-blue cloth with simple title in gilt to spine within decorative rules.
£550 -
Stud bound, in burgundy boards, Bawden design on cream paper to both boards printed in black. Full page illustrated title page by Bawden, vignettes and borders throughout. A very good copy.
£650
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