Choice Cookery; The Housewife"s Referee; The Chafing Dish Together with Directions for the Preparation of Sandwiches; A Calendar of Dinners with 615 Recipes; Recipes for You; Foods and Home Making; Get Rid of that Fat; Vegetable Cookery; The Vicomte in the Kitchen; A Kitchen Manual; A Recipe Book for the Aga Cooker; 1000 Household Hints; The White-Watson Menu & Recipe Book; The Complete Book of Modern Pressure Cooking

Various; H. M. Young; Mrs de Salis; Alice L. James; Marion Harris Neil; Mary MacKirdy; Carlotta C. Greer; Samuel Blythe; Elizabeth Lucas; Vicomte de Mauduit; Heila Hibben; Evelyne White and Jessie R. Watson; Majorie Baron Russell

Published by H. M. Young; Hutchinson & Co; G. P. Putnam’s Sons; Proctor & Gamble Co.; Collins’ Clear-Type Press; Allyn and Bacon; Mills & Boon, Limited; William Heinemann Ltd.; James Clarke & Co. Ltd.; Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Aga Heat Ltd.; Collins; Hodder & Stoughto c1893–1949, London; Glasgow; New York; Cincinnati, 1893

A smart fourteen-volume collection of domestic and cookery books charting over half a century of culinary and household wisdom. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings.This is a smart fourteen-volume collection of domestic and cookery books, spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century, and comprising practical household guides, specialised recipe books, and themed culinary manuals. Richly varied in subject and style, the collection includes illustrated editions, notable reprints, and scarce copies. It consists of: Choice Cookery by H. M. Young (c1893). This is the sixth edition. The Housewife"s Referee: A Treatise on Culinary and Household Subjects by Mrs de Salis (1898). The Chafing Dish Together with Directions for the Preparation of Sandwiches by Alice L. James (1912). A Calendar of Dinners with 615 Recipes by Marion Harris Neil (1922). This is the twenty-second edition. Recipes for You by Mary MacKirdy (1926). Illustrated with nine monochrome plates. Collated, complete. Get Rid of that Fat by Samuel Blythe (1928). Foods and Home Making by Carlotta C. Greer (1928). Vegetable Cookery by Elizabeth Lucas (1931). The Vicomte in the Kitchen by Vicomte de Mauduit, with introductions from Frances, Countess of Warwick and Elizabeth Craig (1937). This is the first cheap edition. A Kitchen Manual by Heila Hibben (1941). First edition. A Recipe Book for the Aga Cooker (c1947). 1000 Household Hints (1947). New and Revised edition. Illustrated with two monochrome photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Collated, complete. The Complete Book of Modern Pressure Cooking by Majorie Baron Russell (1949). The White-Watson Menu & Recipe Book: Menus & Recipes for Every Meal on Every Day of the Year by Evelyne White and Jessie R. Watson. 14 monochrome illustrated plates. Collated, complete. Front hinge cracked and board of "Recipes for You" slightly loose, but holding.Front hinge of "The Housewife"s Referee" cracked, with binding materials slightly exposed, but holding. Previous owner"s inscription to half-title of "Household Hints". Inscription to front free endpaper of "Watson Menu". Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique to front free endpapers of "Get Rid of that Fat", "Housewife"s Referee", "Modern Pressure Cooking" , and "Choice Cookery", and to front paste down of "Watson Menu". "A Kitchen Manual" . Bookplate from Joan Dawson to front free endpaper of "Kitchen Manual". Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. The odd spot and slight offsetting to endpapers. internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Slight age toning to older copies, with the odd spot, heavier to fore edge and first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. Seller Inventory # 973H32

Bibliographic Details

Title: Choice Cookery; The Housewife"s Referee; The...
Publisher: H. M. Young; Hutchinson & Co; G. P. Putnam s Sons; Proctor & Gamble Co.; Collins Clear-Type Press; Allyn and Bacon; Mills & Boon, Limited; William Heinemann Ltd.; James Clarke & Co. Ltd.; Duell, Sloan and Pearce; Aga Heat Ltd.; Collins; Hodder & Stoughto c1893 1949, London; Glasgow; New York; Cincinnati
Publication Date: 1893
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Various
Condition: Very Good Indeed
Book Type: book