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Thirteen cookery books to include The Indian Cook book, Vegetarian Cookery, Casserole cooking etc.

A Bible, Florence Greenberg's cookery book, and Greater London.

Fairfax (Arabella) The Family’s Best Friend: or the Whole Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, fifth [earliest recorded] edition, pagination erratic (as per other copies), woodcut head-pieces and a decorative initial, lacking G4&5 and H2&3, A3 lower corner torn with some loss of text, a few short tears (that on G6 causing loss of a single letter recto and verso, without loss of sense), some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, later endpapers (the front free lacking), 19th century calf, spine gilt and with black leather label, rubbed, [Maclean, pp. 47-8; Oxford, p. 85; Simon, BG 651 (note)], large 12mo, Printed for the Author, 1753. *** Rare at auction (the last copy we can trace being in 1954 (Arthur Shircliffe sale, sold Parke-Bernet, 9&10th November, 1954, first mentioned of lot 271)), and scarce institutionally, with copies often being found defective. This is the earliest edition of the work recorded by the bibliographers. Maclean believed it to be 'Either a slightly earlier edition of a book by Penelope Bradshaw using a pseudonym, or, more likely, a pirated version of it.’ (the latter may account for the erratic pagination). 

ELIZABETH HAMMOND: MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERY, AND USEFUL RECEIPT BOOK, London, Dean and Munday, c1825. Full leather binding (worn, large loss to upper board which is also detaching). lacking frontis and heavily marked throughout.

COOKERY INTEREST: 5 Titles: MRS BEETON'S COOKERY BOOK, London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1927, New and Revised edition; MRS BEETON'S EVERYDAY COOKERY, London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1930, New edition; P L TRAVERS AND MAURICE MOORE-BETTY, London, Collins, 1977, Reprint; MATTHEW HAMLYN: THE RECIPES OF HANNAH WOOLLEY - ENGLISH COOKING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, London, Heinemann Kingswood, 1988; THOMAS WALKR: ARISTOLOGY OR THE ART OF DINING, Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1965. Limited to 500 copies. All in original protected dustjackets (5)

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST GROUP OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS [King-Taylor family recipe book]. The Practice of Cookery and Pastry by Williamson & Son 1869. 8vo, with numerous manuscript recipes laid in, including one for ‘American gingerbread’ written in the hand of Jessie M. King, another recipe apparently in another hand but with King's annotation ‘The EASY-BISCUIT à la Polly Peacham’; Collection of family photographs, approx. 40 in total, of which several depicting Jessie M. King, including a full-length portrait of JMK as a young woman, in a garden (platinum print, mounted on card), one of JMK in a classroom with pupils (albumen print, mounted on card), and others showing E. A. Taylor, Merle Taylor, etc.; Merle Taylor's childhood autograph album, including a watercolour sketch of a cottage through trees signed ‘EAT’ (her father Ernest Archibald Taylor, 1874-1951), and one unsigned but attributed to Jessie M. King; Typescript short story by Merle Taylor, ‘The Maister’For a complete list of photographs in this lot see the lot description on our website lyonandturnbull.com  Provenance: Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald TaylorBy descent to their daughter Merle TaylorEstate of Merle Taylor

Ravilious (Eric).- Heath (Ambrose) The Country Life Cookery Book, first edition, illustrations by Eric Ravilious, T.L.s. from the publishers tipped in, original cloth, dust-jacket with vignette, price-clipped, slightly rubbed and soiled, 1937 § Christmas Book Shop (The): The Year's Best Books, 8pp., printed in yellow and black, illustrations by Ravilious and Edward Bawden, spotted, interleaved and stitched into card folder (staples removed), manuscript paper label in shape of Christmas tree to upper cover, [1924] § London Transport. Country Walks, First [-Third] Series, 3 vol., photographic illustrations, some spotting, original wrappers, all with dust-jackets featuring wood-engraving by Ravilious, a little rubbed, 1936-37 § Pope-Hennessy (James) London Fabric, second edition, foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Ravilious, a little rubbed and frayed, spine browned, New York & London, 1941; and 20 others, illustrated, mostly by Ravilious, and a few loose illustrations by John Nash, 8vo & 4to (26)*** The tipped-in letter in the first is a reply to an enquiry concerning the repetition of the January vignette for December, and whether another engraving was rejected. The publishers are unable to solve the matter as their records were lost during the war. The second item was an advertising insert for the December 1924 edition of the Studio. It includes some of both Ravilious's and Bawden's earliest published designs, executed while they were still students at the Royal College of Art.

Cookery.- Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, second issue with Strand address, and first line of errata corrected to 'Page 657', colour-printed wood-engraved additional pictorial title and 12 plates, 1 loose, lacking frontispiece, p.832-842 paper flaw with some loss to text, occasional short tears one or two affecting text, some light surface soiling, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, chipping to head of spine, upper joint split but holding firm, some rubbing to extremities, 1861 § Acton (Eliza) Modern Cookery,... For the Use of Private Families, seventh edition, half-title, 8 engraved plates, spotting and water-staining, 36pp. advertisement at end, final f. browned, bookplate to front pastedown, later cloth with original spine and covers laid down, Longman, Brown, Green, 1847 § Escoffier (Auguste) A Guide to Modern Cookery, first English edition, frontispiece, tissue-guard, title and first few ff. slightly damp-stained, light browning, bookplate to front pastedown, original green cloth, a little faded, 1907, occasional spotting and surface stains; and a revised edition of Mrs A.B. Marshall's Cookery Book, 4to & 8vo (4)

A collection of vintage 20th century Maison Prunier restaurant related ephemera. The collection to include a selection of 1930s and 1940s restaurant menus and wine lists, alongside two books related to the Madame Pruniet. The books being 'Madame Prunier's Fish Cookery Book (Revised Edition)' edited by Ambrose Heath, and 'La Maison The History of Prunier's'.

MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK: a volume of numerous handwritten cookery and medicinal receipts, early-mid 19thc and in several hands acrosss approx 140 pages: includes 'an infallible cure for the bite of a mad dog brought from Tonquin by Sir Geo. Cobbs..': to make Lady Derby's soap: to make breakfast rolls: Oxford Dumplins (sic): Blanc Manger: a dish of curry: oyster sauce: lobster salad, etc, contained in period half morocco commonplace book with brass closure, rubbed but solid, contents generally sound, small 8vo. (1)

Cookery and Gardening. Remarks on the Art of Making Wine, 2nd edition, 1817, 8vo, half title, sewing weak, boards; CULPEPER (N) The English Physician Enlarged, 1799, 8vo; MOXON (E) English Housewifery, 10th edition, 1769, 8vo; FARLEY (J) The London Art of Cookery, 11th edition, 1807, 8vo, detached tree calf; ACTON (E) Modern Cookery, 7th edition, 1847, title loose, worn cloth; BEETON (I) Book of Household Management, fiftieth thousand, 1863, 8vo, title creased, worn half roan; also - Mawes' Gardener, Miller's Gardener's Kalendar and Beeton's Book of Garden Management (9)

Two manuscript cookery books, circa 1830s and later, with indexes of recipes to the front, and a manuscript book of geometric and measuring rules written in pen and ink, dated 1820; together with a third cookery book with very few entries (4)

Cookery. DAVID (Elizabeth) French Provincial Cooking, dust jacket; Summer Cooking; GRIEVE (M) My Book of Herbs, cloth; CAREME. French Cookery, illustrated by W Hall, new edition, 1856, cloth; with others in French and English by Pampille, P. Carton, Saint-Ange, P. Reboux, E. R. Pennell, etc. Condition varies

Seven cookery books to include: Nigel Slater, Cook with Jamie, The Book of Steaks, etc.

CRADOCK, (Fanny), Something's Burning, The Autobiography of two cooks, first edition, London, Putnam, 1960, together with Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book, introduction by Graham Greene, first edition, Heinemann Ltd, 1952, also James Beard's Fish Cookery, London, Faber & Faber, In a Persian Kitchen, published in Japan,1960, also Dr. E.A.Maury, Wine is the Best Medicine, French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David, and Alexander Watt, Paris Bistro Cookery, (7)

Cookery Interest:; Late 18th century, dated 1796 Manuscript Recipe Book 160 recipes including Mock Turtle Soup attributeed to Mrs Casters, observations on soups and gravys, onion suce for pork steaks att; Mrs Mellish, maccaroni att; Mrs mellish, Scotch broth, Mrs Hart, Omelette the French way, wash for silk stockings, various recipes for paints and dyes, note of suppliers including Robert Walsh bacon merchant near Richmond, Mr Lambert, Oilman and Olive merchant, foot of Ludgate Hill, Mr Dawkins Teaman, Gracechurch St, London etc (160)front board and front papers detached and spine broken recipes legible

[[Glasse (Hannah)] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published... by a Lady, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington et al., 1770, 8vo, marbled calf rebacked, reverse of title with manuscript recipe 'To make Mince Pies'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770) was first published in 1747. It was a bestseller for a century after its first publication, dominating the English-speaking market and making Glasse one of the most famous cookbook authors of her time. The book ran through at least 40 editions, many of which were copied without explicit author consent. It was published in Dublin from 1748, and in America from 1805 [ESTC T63525; Bitting, p.189; Maclean p.60; Oxford p.77]

Manuscript Cookery and Home Remedy Books 18th and 19th Century, to include four books in contemporary vellum of which one a brass clasped account book, 12mo, one volume entitled 'Recipe Book' with marbled paper boards and leather spine, small 4to, another partially disbound volume with Medical notes, 4to (6) Sadly unattributed for the most part, one recipe book is inscribed 'Mary'. The account book, starting in the late 18th Century gives some names, such as William Richardson, Kirkoswald' and 'Dr Cringledyke Estate'.One of the smaller volumes includes a plethora of home remedies, from curing whooping cough, chilblains to the more optimistic 'Recipe for a Cancer or any Tumour'. Other volumes mention 'A good Incarnation salve', remedies for 'hysterical fits' and Dropsie. The largest vellum recipe book, partially completed and indexed to the first few pages shows more useful recipes such as 'Red Quince Marmolet', 'to make Carromel for Fruit', Ratifia Puffs' and 'English Champagne'.The largest of the volumes, labelled 'Extracts' to the spine is alphabetically arranged and partially completed with notes on chemistry.

Cookbooks. A collection of late 19th century Victorian and early 20th century cookery books. The lot to include The Universal Cookery Book, Superior Cookery by Mrs. Black, 365 Vegetarian Dishes, Series VI & VII from the Queen Cookery Books descr. Beaty Pownall & publ. Horace Cox, Household Management by Beckford & Fitzgerald, Beeton's Every Day Gardening, Edinburgh Book of Plain Cookery Recipes, Tried Favourites Cookbook, as well as numerous pamphlet recipe books incl. Meatless Menus by Alfred Arm, The Stork Wartime Cookbook, The ABC of Cookery and Be-Ro Home Recipes. Either in publisher's orig. cloth or paper wraps, generally smart with some wear & use, prior ownership inscriptions. Otherwise a smart and varied collection. 8vo.

First/Second World War Militaria, relating to 905205 Bombardier Henry King, RFA., including brass shoulder titles, Sussex Territorial shoulder title, cap badge, lapel badges, lance corporal's chevron, Local Defence Volunteers armband, photographs, Cookery Certificate, Recipe book etc; Ephemera, relating to 1417489 Warrant Officer I Class Frank Hubert French, Royal Regiment of Artillery, including his Certificate of Service, two Soldier's Service and Pay Books, Qualification certificates, testimonials, Commission to Warrant Officer dated 31st August 1939, pamphlets, a tin tube of photographs etc, he enlisted at Chichester 19th April 1920 and was discharged 12th October 1951; Ephemera, relating to 2591114 Sergeant Donald Woolford, Cheshire Yeomanry, including a folder of copies of family and other letters sent and received 1944/45 including one applying to become official Unit Photographer, two anotated photograph albums illustrating his five years service in the Middle East from 1940-45; also, a First World War photograph album relating to the Middlesex Regiment whilst serving in India 1915-18, and loose photographs showing General de Gaulle, a military parade in Baghdad, RAF official photographs etc (qty)

Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Practical Receipts [...], To which is added a Short Account of Wines, ?first edition, London: Printed for J. Booth, n.d. [c. 1815-20], xviii, 350, [10]pp (publisher's catalogue), in-text table settings, original publisher's sheep over boards, upper-cover lettered in gilt, chipped and worn, but holding, MS ownership inscription to pastedown, 8vo; Anon, Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886, original cloth, 8vo; & Medical: Stevenson (William, Physician at Wells), A Successful Method of Treating the Gout by Blistering. With an Introduction, Consisting of Miscellaneous Matter, first edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1779, xl, 41-170, [1]pp (errata leaf), ex-library copy, stamps to prelims and final two leaves, later 19th c half-calf over marbled boards, label to upper-cover, 8vo, (3)

A small box of mixed collectables to include Mrs. Beetons book of household management, Mrs. Beetons Cookery book, a jar of mixed marbles and a Sindy doll.

Two Modern Wall Mirrors, carved wooden hay fork, a pair of metal pheasants, cookery book, treen, kitchen roller and base, framed watercolour of farm in rural landscape, signed George Jackson and an 1828 alphabet sampler, worked by Ann Watson Jackson, framed (9)

SELECTION OF COOKERY AND TRAVEL BOOKShardback and paperback, titles include Homecraft Book, Heston Blumenthal at Home, The Curious Bartender, In at the Deep End, various country and city guides, etc., 2 boxes

PENNELL (ELIZABETH), MY COOKERY BOOKS, limited edition, 45/320, mounted plates, ¼ cloth with marbled boards, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1903; NAPIER (MRS ALEXANDER), A NOBLE BOOK OF COOKERY, patterned binding, London, Stock, 1882; URBAIN DUBOIS, COSMOPOLITAN COOKERY, POPULAR STUDIES, later ¾ leather, ‘Presented by the Publishers’ blind stamp to title page, London, Longmans, 1870 (3)

HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR OR UNIVERSAL COOKERY BOOK, 15th edition, engraved frontis and nine plates, re-backed, London, Stratford, 1809; FARLEY (JOHN), THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY, 3rd edition, portrait frontis, 12 plates, London, Scatcherd, 1785; THE COOK’S ORACLE CONTAINING RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY, London, Constable, 1822; HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR, engraved frontis, 11 plates, no date; KETTILBY (MARK), A COLLECTION OF ABOVE THREE HUNDRED RECEIPS IN COOKERY, 3rd edition, London, Wilkin, 1724; an 18th century book lacking first pages and two 19th century cookery books (8)

Charles Elme Francatelli, "A Plain Cookery Book for The Working Class", London, Routledge, circa 1890s, with one other Victorian book on games and pastimes

Cookery, a collection of sixteen assorted titles, including Richard Warner: 'Antiquitates Culinariae', London, Prospect Books, c.1980, facsimile limited edition (56/400) of the original 1791 edition, 4to, original boards gilt, glassine and acetate dust wrappers; 'Patsy's Reflections Learn to Cook by Pictures', London, Mirror Features, [1949], 192pp, colour illustrated comic book style leaves throughout, oblong 4to, spiral bound original pictorial wraps, plus 'Patsy's Christmas Reflections', L, Mirror Features, [1952],96pp, same format, orig. spiral bound pictorial wraps; Dorothy Allhusen: 'A Book of Scents & Dishes', London, 1927, revised enlarged edition (2nd edition), orig. quarter cloth gilt; 'The British Baker Album of Cake Designs', L, Maclaren & sons, [1924], 96pp + ads at front and end, illustrated throughout, 4to, original cloth; Evelyn Bach: 'Recipes from Vienna', L, Cobden Sanderson, 1933, printed at the Shenval Press, 133pp, spiral bound orig. pictorial card covers; 'The Corner Cupboard A Family Repository', L, Houlston & Wright, 1858, 10th thou., orig. cloth gilt; Mrs. R. Calder Marshall; Margaret Bryant: 'The Anglo-Chinese Cook Book', [nd], c.1916, 2nd edition, volume I (English), xxix,[2],327,[1]pp, b/w plates, original cloth; H.G. Harris & S.P. Borella: 'All About Ices, Jellies, Creams, & Conserves', L, Maclaren & sons, [1926], ex library, 4to, original cloth; E,J. Kollist:' French Pastry, Confectionery and Sweets', 1936, 2nd edition, frontis + numerous b/w plates, original cloth gilt; plus 6 others similar (16)

Cookery, eight assorted titles, including William Salmon: 'The Family Dictionary: or, Houshold Companion. Containing Cookery...Pastry...Confects...Potable Liquors...Perfuming...Husbandry...Preparations Galenick and Chymick...', London, A. Rhodes, 1710, 4th edition, [16],560pp, rebound cloth gilt; Hannah Glasse: 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy', L, 1803, new edition, xl,419pp, final page of index supplied in facsimile, rebound quarter calf gilt; Elizabeth Raffald: 'The Experienced English Housekeeper', L, 1786, 10th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 3 folding engraved plates complete, some dampstaining affecting lower edges of early leaves, rebound cloth gilt; W.A. Henderson; Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie: 'The Housekeeper's Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook', L. W. Lewis, [1823], 17th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 11 engraved plates (of which 2 folding, the final folding plate with part loss), rebound half calf gilt; Elizabeth Hammond: 'Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book', L, Dean & Munday, c.1835, 7th edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title + 4 engraved plates, 12mo, rebound quarter calf gilt; Mrs Dalgairns: 'The Practice of Cookery', Edinburgh, 1835, 5th edition, 468pp, old half calf gilt; A. Escoffier: 'A Guide to Modern Cookery', L, Heinemann, 1913, new & revised edition (5th printing overall), portrait frontis, original cloth gilt (worn); plus 1 other (8)

A GROUP OF CERAMICS, GLASS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include an Indian carved wooden box, the interior carved with the insignia of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, and inscribed 'All My Love, Dan, India 1944', approximate size 27cm x 16.5cm x 8cm, together with a similar carved wooden box and an embroidered example, a signed copy of The Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookery Book, a boxed Arcoroc Marguerite plate set, an eighteen piece unmarked Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee coffee set, Tuscan 'Wild Strawberry' tea ware, a crystal jug, a Coalport milk jug (hairlines to base), a Spode Fleur de Lys Gold covered sugar bowl, a Wedgwood Kutani Crane dinner plate, a Kit Vision 7'' digital photograph frame (untested), etc (qty) (Condition Report: most pieces appear ok, sd and as stated in description, signs of light use)

A quantity of cookery books to include: Seafood, The Soup Bible, The Poachers Cook Book, etc.

Vintage Westmorland cookery book dated 1939, vintage postcards - Muncaster Castle, framed Victorian portrait miniature, metal tatting hooks etc

CROXALL (S.) The Fables of Aesop, 12mo, folding frontlist, text illus., clo., Halifax, 1860; Book of Common Prayer, 24mo, contemp. morocco gilt, Oxford, 1825; The New Practical Gardener, 4to, col. plates, half calf (worn), L., ca. 1875; Buckmaster's Cookery, L., ca. 1874 (4).

A cloth bound volume of Mrs Beaton's cookery book published 1892.

Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, 125th thousand edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [circa 1867], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original red quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, light wear mostly at head of spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with:Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 255 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1869], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, 19th-century maroon quarter sheep, joints cracked and worn at head of spine, 8vo,Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 660 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1869], folding chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations and plates, one text leaf detached and frayed, rear free endpaper torn, original maroon quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, joints split, spine cracked and worn, 8vo, plus three other later Beeton editions, plus an incomplete copy of Markham (Gervase). The English House-Wife containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman: As her Skill in Physick, Chirurgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting stuff, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wool..., of Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold...., 8th edition, London: printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, 1668, title present (detached and closed tears at gutter), lacking other preliminary leaves and all text before p.113 (3R1), disbound 4to QTY: (7)

Sammlung: von 10 Kochbüchern, versch. Formate u. Einbde. ╔Enthält:╗ Naumann,L. Systematik der Kochkunst. 3. Aufl. Drsdn., Schönfeld 1900. - Amerlan,F. Am Herd des Hauses. (2. Aufl.). Stettin, Niekammer (ca. 1905). - Senn,C.H. The New Century Cookery Book. London, Spottiswoode 1901. - Böttcher,C. Kraft und Stoff ... 2. Aufl. Hbg. u.a., Richter 1863. - Universal-Lexikon der Kochkunst. 2 Bde. Lpz., Weber 1878. 2 Karten in Kopie. - Buchmeier,M. Großes Praktisches Kochbuch... 7. verm. Aufl. Regensburg, Habbel (um 1910). - König,H. Illustr. Deutsches Kochbuch... 5. Aufl. Hannover, Teller 1879. - Seleskowitz,L. Wiener Kochbuch. 15. Aufl. Wien (ca. 1914). - Oppre,A. Das Neue Kochbuch... Augsburg, Kranzfelder 1879. - Versch. starke Gebrauchsspuren.

A 19th century copy of 'Beeton's Book of Needlework, Illustrated by Many Engravings and Folding Plates, published by Ward, Lock & Co Ltd, Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E. C. London, New York and Melbourne, with gilt tooled blue cloth boards, 8vo, not dated, but likely circa 1870, together with various other books comprising an 1865 copy of 'Domestic Cookery by Mrs Rundel', published by Halifax, Milner and Sowerby, a pocket edition of 'Selections from Keats', a miniature edition of 'The Lady of The Lake', by Sir Walter Scott, 'Name This Flower', by Gaston Bonnier, 1936 edition and 'Familiar Wild Flowers', by Edward Hulme, First Series with Colour Plates, published by Cassell and Company Ltd, London, Paris and Melbourne.

Manuscript.- Cookery & Medical.- Myddelton (Mrs) [Collection of recipes], Elizabeth David's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown, manuscript, in several hands, c. 145pp. excluding blanks, 1p. with newspaper cuttings of recipes, 1p. with printed and manuscript label of "Insley Powell Cheese and Provision Merchant... R.B . Myddelton with R.M. Dymocks kind regards of Castle Street, Shrewsbury," several manuscript recipes loosely inserted, label: "Mrs Myddelton's Book" on front pastedown, original half calf, slightly rubbed, later rebacked, later label on spine, sm. 4to (206 x 166mm.), dated in text 1863. *** Recipes including: "Pig Sauce"; "A very good Plum pudding"; "Beautiful Ginger Beer"; "French Bread"; "Apple Pudding"; "From Caroline. Stilton Cheese. Mrs Wilsford"; "The Devils Pot - Mrs Mather... To Two quarts of good Ale..."; "Gloucester Cheese"; "Palestine Soup"; "From the head Gardener at Trentham [Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire]"; "How to Stop Bleeding"; "For the Hooping Cough"; "For Neuralgia - fm. Miss E. Williams - Bodelwyddan [north Wales]"; "Cure for Hydrophobia - Lady Vavasour" etc.

Mrs Beeton's Household Management inscribed 1944 and Royal cookery Book

Mrs Beetons Household Management, a Complete Cookery Book ..., new edition, Ward Locke & Co, colour frontis, colour plates and other illustrations throughout, advertisements, half leather, original d-w, glassine cover (condition very good) 

Cookery - "The Illustrated London Cookery Book ...", by Frederick Bishop, London, 227 The Strand 1852, illustrations, recipes, some foxing, ep missing, original publishers blindstamped and gilt decorated cloth, front board detaching from the backstrip Laverty, Maura "Kind Cooking ...", decorations by Louis Le Brocquy, published by The Kerryman for Maura Laverty Miscellanies, photographic illustrations, boards which have seen some damp, "Chambers Cookery for Young Housewives" Pepper, Beverly "Pot Luck Cookery", reprint, "The Savoy Cocktail Book", Chancellor Press, laminated boards Harben, Philip "Cooking", Penguin 1962 and "Here's How ...", issued by the Victoria Wine Company Limited, limp covers  Boulstin, X. Marcel and Hill, Jason "Herbs, Salads and Seasonings", William Heinemann 1930, illustrations by Cedric Morris, library stamps (8) 

Four vintage books including two Mrs Beetons cookery books, The Book of Household Management (AF) and The Works of William Paley, D.D. With A Life by Alexander Chalmers Esq.

A Collection of odds; George Betjemann & Sons Wedgwood and Ormolu lid, Collection of Underwood & Underwood Slides, Folk art box made from cigarette roll ups, Chinese hardwood and stone hand painted box and The Nautical Cookery Book by T.F. Adkins London.

Cookery. Three titles: Heath, Ambrose - The Country Life Cookery Book. London: Country Life Ltd. 1937, 1st edition. Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious. Original cloth.; Heath, Ambrose - Good Food Month by Month Recipes. London: Faber and Faber, 1934, 2nd impression. Decorated by Edward Bawden. Original cloth, in dust jacket (worn); and one other. (3)

Large accumulation of UK and overseas mainly used postage stamps. Large numbers of UK low face value stamps from QV 1d reds onwards to George VI. Together with a tired copy of Mrs Beetons cookery book.

Three vintage Cookery books, "Cooking In Wartime" by Elizabeth Craig, "The ABC Of Cookery-Ministry of Food 1945", and "Home Pride" cookery book by Catherine Ives (well used)

A box of miscellaneous works to include a Constance Spry Cookery book, other Cookery books, Autobiographies, Travel Works etc.

One box of cook books to including: Mrs Beeton's family Cookery, The Nordic Cook Book, I know how to Cook, etc.

Eric Morecambe's copy of Who's Who 1974, inscribed to Eric, loosely-inserted typed letter from publisher (recording Eric's entry in the book); Victorian England as seen by Punch, signed for Eric by Anne de Courcy, Bonnie Angelo, Chapman Pincher, Edward Heath, and many others; Good Housekeeping's Picture Cookery, inscribed by Eric Morecambe to wife Joan, "To Joan, 'The Way to a Man's Heart'!!! Love, Eric, 1952"; Invest One Hundred Pounds, featuring humorous inscription to Eric from Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson, 1962. Condition varied, sold with all faults (4) ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

Joan & Eric Morecambe's book collection, some signed & inscribed to Eric by the authors, including An Autobiography, signed by Liberace; This One's On Me, signed by Jimmy Greaves; The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew's, signed by the staff; Shrimpy, signed by Shane Acton; Kicked Into Touch, signed by Fred Eyre; Thalidomide, signed by David Mason; The Goalscorers, signed by Tony Pawson, plus several signed & inscribed to Joan, including My Life Story, by Wendy Richard, and Nearly Famous, by Bob "The Cat" Bevan, a proof copy of Mog, by Peter Tinniswood (unsigned but with typed letter to EM from publisher), together with a quantity of unsigned books on furniture, antiques, art, cookery, and other subjects, the whole in six cartons (6) ❧ This is from Eric Morecambe’s private study at his home in Harpenden

A box of vintage books including Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management (colour cookery plates), The Scots Worthies, Records of Inverness etc. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household management is in fair condition. Some foxing to the edges of pages. There is a small tear at the top of the spine approx 1 inch long, above the 'rs' in 'Mrs'. There is a water mark on the front and rear covers and on the inside of these covers. In the Preface there is a note dated November 1888, and on the frontespiece is marked Seven Hundredth Thousand.

A selection of Victorian style copper jelly moulds, each of circular form with varied decoration, the largest 24cms diameter; together with two antique irons, each with turned wooden handles; and a vintage 'The Kenya Settler's Cookery Book and Household Guide'.

Assorted china including boxed Wedgwood dessert plate, R. Worcester dessert plate, Delft plate, Leeds Pottery dish, KPM Bavaria vase, Wedgwood vase, Minton 3-tier cakestand, Nancy Overend 'Lobbydale' bowl and Mrs. Beeton's Family Cookery book

Quantity of books, relating to fishing and hunting, together with a number of 19th century library books, titles include: Chesterfield's Letters, Macaulay's History of England, bound copies of The Sphere illustrated newspaper for the year 1916 (very good condition), 1st edition British Mammals by L. Harrison Matthews 1952, Wild Lone The Story of a Pytchley Fox 'BB'; The Badmington Library of Sports and Pastimes Sea fishing nr 99/250 copies, White-Ear and Peter The Story of a Fox and a Fox Terrier illustrated by Cecil Aldin, The New Forest described by Elizabeth Godfrey, Bird-Life of The Seasons W. Percival Westell, The New Forest foreword by the Earl of Radnor, Butterflies by E.B Ford; Living with Butterflies L. Hugh Newman, Fur, Feather and Fin Series The Fox; Beeton's Book of Garden Management circa 1880, Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book New Edition, British Wild Flowers J.E Sowerby & C.P Johnson, Red Fox by Charles G.D Roberts, Wild Animals I have Known by Ernet Thompson Seton; In Flanders Field by Leon Wolff 1917 Campaign, Birds & Men by E.M Nicholson, The Badmington Library 'Salmon & Trout' amongst others. 

Vintage recipe and cookery books and a 19th Century hand-written book of recipes

Three framed and glazed colour plate illustrations from Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book - 15.5 x 9.8cm, the gilt frames (35 x 28cm).

THREE EARLY 20TH CENTURY COOKERY BOOKSconsisting of Mrs Beatons Household Management, Ward Lock and Co; Mrs A.B Marshall's Cookery book, Simpson, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co limited; and Recipes for you, Mary MaeKirdy, Collins (3)

Selection of vintage cookery books incl. Rochfort (Louisa), The St James's Cookery Book, 1894, Chapman and Hall; Barnett (Annie), The Penlee Recipe Book (presentation copy), 1915, G. Bell and Sons; Beeton (Isabella), The Book of Household Management, 1869, Ward Lock and Co etc.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, A Guide to Cookery in all Branches, New Edition, Ward, Lock, & Co., Limited, London etc, 1915

[GLASSE, Hannah]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, A New Edition, 8vo, [40], 1-419 pp., internally good with intermittent spotting, front blank inscribed "Mary Lowe, given by her affectionate mother H. Stoppard, December 1856", rebound, London: J. Johnson, H. L. Gardner, F. & C. Rivington, et al., 1803 ❧ A late-Georgian edition of the most renowned English cookery book of the eighteenth century