Intro Osbert Sitwell (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Lightly faded gilt titles to spine on bright red boards with nominal shelf wear, still sharp corners and firm hinges. DJ has large chip to crown, wear to heel and nominal wear to corners. BP/Fiction/Smollett.

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Good. First Edition. Illustrated. Red with white title label with black titles to front. Spine slightly sunned and rubbed at top; edges yellowed. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Messel, Oliver (illustrator). First Edition. xi., 312 pp., colour frontis., and 10 charming colour designs by Messel prior to chapters. The front board also has a marvellous design in black, of a boar's head on a platter. Each section has some blank pages for the reader to write their own recipes. Some darkening and rubbing to the binding 8vo.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Messel, Oliver (illustrator). New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New edition, with Oliver Messel illustrations. xi, 264 pp. Yellow decorative boards in colour illustrated jacket, not priceclipped but with a pencil inscription to price. Small loss to jacket's front panel, chipping, a few tears and marks. Internally very fresh and bright with no markings. Sir Osbert Sitwell writes: "Lady Sysonby's selection is beyond criticism. Varied, historic, traditional, and not intended for the rich man's table alone". Practical recipes for soups, fish, meat and birds, vegetables, puddings, cakes, savouries, sauces, sandwiches, drinks. The front board has a marvellous design in black, of a boar's head on a platter. With 10 charming colour illustrations and in the original colour jacket designed by Oliver Messel, one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century. Small 8vo.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Piper, John (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited Edition, no. 251 of 1000 copies; signed by John Piper to ffep. [vi], xvi, 115 pp. Green buckram with gilt illustration to boards and lettering to spine in dust jacket. Scratching to front panel and a small open tear to top of rear panel; some foxing to sunned spine and top edge of rear panel of jacket. Leaves uncut and a firm binding. Inscription from John and Myfanway Piper dated to 1949. Colour lithographic illustrations and decorations by John Piper. A foreword by the author's son Osbert Sitwell; the author was an expert in gardens, especially those in Italy, and this book represents his analysis of the principles of their design. 8vo. Limited Edition.

Leather. Condition: Fine. Oliver Messel (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful example of the uncommon first edition of Lady Sysonby's cookery work, in a signed quarter morocco binding. The uncommon first edition of this work, with an introduction from Osbert Sitwell.A refined and eclectic collection of recipes compiled by Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby, Lady Sysonby, drawing on her experiences of aristocratic life, travel, and entertaining. The book features traditional British dishes alongside international recipes.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and a small number of colour vignette illustrations from Oliver Messel, one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century.In a striking quarter morocco signed binding by David M. Kirby of Chester. Endpapers renewed.With the bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to the verso of the front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy. In a quarter morocco signed binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Binder's label to front pastedown, bookplate to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned to perimeters, but clean and bright. Fine. book.