DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking
DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. London: Macdonald. 1958. 8vo. Second edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in brown and gilt to the spine, in the remarkable wraparound dust jacket designed by John Minton. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the textblock with one tiny stain to top edge, the contents otherwise fine with faint offsetting to front endpaper and small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net) with a couple of small chips around the spine head, lightly creased here with some discreet tape repair to verso, plus a small chip at spine panel. Nevertheless a very presentable example.
A highlight of both midcentury culinary books and of British book design, with excellent illustrations by Minton within. The first edition was published by John Lehmann in 1951 before Macdonald reprinted it here in 1958, following exactly the same format as that first.
DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. London: Macdonald. 1958. 8vo. Second edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in brown and gilt to the spine, in the remarkable wraparound dust jacket designed by John Minton. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the textblock with one tiny stain to top edge, the contents otherwise fine with faint offsetting to front endpaper and small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net) with a couple of small chips around the spine head, lightly creased here with some discreet tape repair to verso, plus a small chip at spine panel. Nevertheless a very presentable example.
A highlight of both midcentury culinary books and of British book design, with excellent illustrations by Minton within. The first edition was published by John Lehmann in 1951 before Macdonald reprinted it here in 1958, following exactly the same format as that first.
DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. London: Macdonald. 1958. 8vo. Second edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in brown and gilt to the spine, in the remarkable wraparound dust jacket designed by John Minton. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the textblock with one tiny stain to top edge, the contents otherwise fine with faint offsetting to front endpaper and small bookseller label to front pastedown corner. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net) with a couple of small chips around the spine head, lightly creased here with some discreet tape repair to verso, plus a small chip at spine panel. Nevertheless a very presentable example.
A highlight of both midcentury culinary books and of British book design, with excellent illustrations by Minton within. The first edition was published by John Lehmann in 1951 before Macdonald reprinted it here in 1958, following exactly the same format as that first.