In 1967 the First International James Joyce Symposium was held in Dublin by the three founding members: Thomas F. Staley of the University of Tuls...

The first printed cookbook. Rare 16th-century Latin edition of the first printed cookbook to be published on a mass scale.Written in c. 1465 by Bar...

Signed by Julia Child. The first edition, signed by Julia Child and her husband Paul Child, of the continuation of Mastering the Art of French Cook...

A classic cocktail book from café society New York, with the scarce dust-jacket. The Stork Club was established during the prohibition by the boot...

Charles Badham (1805-1857) studied medicine at Pembroke College then practised in Rome and Paris for several years until ill health forced him to ...

The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli...

An exceptional copy of this first edition of Elizabeth David's second book, still a core text and inspiration for any aspiring cook over seventy y...

Second edition of this influential cookbook, improved with revisions, in the original pictorial dustjacket.Second edition (revised and expanded); ...

Recipes are listed by course, including soups, fish, meat, eggs, rice, curries, savoury dishes, as well as sambals (a chilli sauce or paste), chut...

An original example of a rare and early piece of commercial work produced by Bawden for at least two of the great Victorian hotels in Scarborough,...

A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a...

A scarce work, chronicling the evolution and implementation of the humble spoon over millennia, on behalf of the presumably fictitious Society of ...