WOOD, EstherBiblio.com
Esther CopleyBiblio.com
The Complete Cottage Cookery
1859937T83London: Groombridge and Sons 1859. Cloth. Good. 5.5" by 4". Not Stated. A very scarce eleventh edition of this charming cookery book for cottage living. Eleventh edition. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. A charming cookery book for cottage living with recipes for stews soups puddings pies vegetables bread cakes and more. Including chapters on the choice of provisions modes of cooking frugality charitable cooking and cooking for the sick or young. Containing a prefatory chapter by the author's daughter and a biographical sketch. Written by Esther Copley an English religious tractarian and a prolific writer of didactic books for children. From the library of Jill Norman an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and as the only woman the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson Claudia Roden and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David with whom she was good friends. In the original full cloth binding. Externally sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. A split in the cloth to the rear joint resulting in slight lifting of the spine. Minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good Groombridge and Sons hardcover
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