Lady Jekyll; Lady Freyberg - Kitchen Essays

London, Collins, 1969. Cloth. An excellent new edition of Lady Jekyll's 'Kitchen Essays', edited by her daughter Lady Freyberg. A revised edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This charming work can be read both for entertainment and practical use in the kitchen, with recipes that are simple, clear and reflective of the times, interwoven with advice for hosting and other delightful commentaries. From Agnes Jekyll, a Scottish-born British artist, famous society hostess and philanthropist.This edition is edited by her daughter, Lady Freyberg, and has been revised to take into account all modern culinary techniques. Decorated with pleasing line drawings throughout the text by Pauline Baynes. 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 cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the head of spine. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and a couple small closed tears to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Two bookplates to the front free endpaper, one belonging to Jill Norman and the other to Gyll Matthews. Near Fine . Ill.: Pauline Baynes. Near Fine/Very Good.

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