BLACK, E. T..

Decorative Crafts: Barbola, Gesso, Artificial Flowers, Sealing-Wax, China and Pottery Decoration, Passe-Partout, Stencilling, Transfer, Mosaic Work and Lampshades in Silk, Pleated Paper, and Parchment. Home Handicraft Series.

London, C. Arthur Pearson, 1950. Small 8vo.13 x 19 cm. original paper-covered boards and price-clipped colour illustrated dust-wrapper. 128pp. with 115 (b/w) illustrations in-text, index. In very good condition, clean and tight, spine head snagged and dust-wrapper just a little worn at edges. For artists, designers, students and others.

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Book number: 38027

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Craft|Art|Featured|Vintage|Textiles

BLACK, Mrs [Margaret McKirdy Black, 1830 - 1903]

Household Cookery and Laundry Work: By Mrs Black of the West-End School of Cookery, Glasgow. Holder of a First-Class Diploma...

London and Glasgow, William Collins, n.d. Small 8vo. original blue cloth lettered black, yellow 'chalk' endpapers, 144 pp. 115 x 170 mm. A fair copy. Cloth and endpapers marked and soiled, spine ends pulled, internally a little soiled from usage and age. However, tight, no tears, no underscoring. Not dated but probably 1882 edition. Margaret Black wrote a number of books on cookery and housekeeping. She founded the West End School of Cookery in 1878 and was active in such causes as temperance and women's suffrage. Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, 2018 (Ewan et al ).

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Book number: 37876

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Ephemera|Women

[Brown & Polson].

Light Fare Recipes for Corn Flour and "Raisley" Cookery.

Paisley and London, Brown & Polson, n.d. Original yellow cloth, with blue and white illustrated on-lay to both boards. 110 x 217 mm. 121 pp. 3 b/w plates. With indices and advertising for Raisley cooking utensils. Two Brown & Polson coloured recipe slips, inscribed: "Katie Vaughan, Aberaeron, 1926". Light wear, cloth darkened, corners bruised, lacks front free endpaper but clean internally and tight. No loss no tears or marks. Brown & Polson originally used starch to process muslin. By 1842, John Polson Jnr. had succeeded in producing a powder starch which could be used in cooking - this was to become 'Brown & Polson's patent cornflour'.

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Book number: 37871

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Ephemera|Featured

CATFORD, Nancy (Anne Edith)

Making Nursery Toys: Written and Illustrated by Nancy Catford. Organiser Nursery Equipment Workshop for the Nursery School Association of Great Britain. Dedicated to Toymakers Everywhere. More Vigour to Your Saws, More Colour to Your Brushes.

London, Frederick Muller, 1944. Original illustrated limp cloth, 128pp. full-page b/w sketch illustrations and b/w plates throughout, index. Light wear, economy paper. Generally good condition with very light signs of wear. Anne Edith (Nancy) Catford Stone, talented sculptor, puppeteer, figurine modeller for Wedgwood, brought up Quaker, worked in Poland, Hungary and G.B. in the Friends Relief Service during WWII. This little handbook was published in answer to the large number of 'war' nurseries which had opened up but lacked suitable, safe and sturdy equipment for small children.

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Book number: 38028

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Children's|Featured|Art|Craft|Vintage|Women|Quaker|Textiles

[CLEGG, H. A..] (Foreword Ernest Brown)

How to Keep Well in Wartime: Issued for the Ministry of Health by Ministry of Information.

London, H.M.S.O. 1943. Original wartime pamphlet, in original pictorial covers, 25 pp. In very good condition, small tear to spine tail. Hugh Anthony Clegg was a British medical doctor and editor of the British Medical Journal from 1947 to 1965. In 1932 he married Kira von Engelhardt, Baroness von Smolensk, daughter of a Russian émigré, Arthur Engelhardt, Baron von Smolensk. Nick Clegg is their grandson.

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Book number: 37905

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Featured|Ephemera|World War II

COOK, Trevor

Samuel Hahnemann Founder of Homoeopathic Medicine

Wellingborough, U.K, Thorson's Publishers Limited, 1981. A good clean, tight ex-public library copy in unclipped original dust-wrapper. Very clean, and crisp, no annotations. Library plate neatly removed from f.e.p. With 11 illustrations, bibliography and index. Used; Very Good The fascinating story of the life and times of this extraordinary physician who established a system of healing which revolutionized medicine and continues to offer an effective alternative today. Hardback.

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Book number: 36594

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Special Collection|Medicine|Featured|Biography

CRADDOCK, Harry (Comp.), RUMBOLD, Gilbert (illus.)

The Savoy Cocktail Book: Being in the Main a Complete Compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes and Other Drinks...

London, Constable & Company, 1930. Octavo, 287pp. Original striking Art Deco illustrated boards over original black cloth spine lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, cheerful brightly coloured graphics throughout by Gilbert Rumbold. 2p. advertisement for Booth's Gin between half-title verso and title. 2pp. additional cocktails in back before 3 pp. ruled blanks for notes. No errata slip to p. 25. A good to very good copy with minor signs of age and use. Spine a little creased, spine ends a little bumped, board edges rubbed, very small nick to upper board decoration. Inner joint just a little fragile but not cracked. Generally a very nice copy.

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Book number: 38729

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Antiquarian|Britain|Featured|Cookery|Deco|Book-Cover-Design

CRAIG, Karen & Seva Novgorodsev

The Cooking of Russia Sainsbury Cookbook Series.

Sainsbury's, 1990. P/b. 96pp. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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Book number: 36714

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Russia|Cookery|Featured

FITZGIBBON, Theodora [Faith Jaques illus.].

Cosmopolitan Cookery in an English Kitchen. Revised Edition.

London, Andre Deutsch, 1960. Original dust-wrapper. xii+140 pp. Clean and tight. A little chipping to dust-wrapper edges. Simple dishes with lots of lard, veal and pigs trotters! Illustrated by celebrated illustrator Faith Jaques whose ".. special gift was an ability to translate the emotional tone of a text into the strong visual atmosphere created by her pen-and-ink drawings" Tucker 1997. Hardback.

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Book number: 36491

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Book-Cover Design|Featured|Cooking

FRÖHLICH, Lieschen

Das Praktische Lieschen. German Cookery Receipe Book. Eine Kleine Sammlung Erprobter Rezepte Mit Angehängtem Speisezettel Für Das Ganze Jahr.

Stuttgart, Julius Püttmann, 1925. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards, 76pp. Spine ends snagged, boards a little marked, 1937 inscription to f.e.p. (Der lieben Tante Beate.. ). Some pages a little marked and one rather stained with a few contemporary pencil and ink annotations. Used; Good Practical and tested recipes with suggested menus for throughout the year. Script in Gothic. Hardback.

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Book number: 33784

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|German|Featured

[General Electric Company]

G.E. C. Cookery Book: Price 1/6 New Edition.

London, The General Electric Company, 1939. Reprint. Illustrated paper covered boards, 122 pp. b/w photo reproductions. Index and blanks for notes. 130 x 185 mm. Internally tight, no loss, no tears, occasional mark to pages. Lacks back strip, boards marked and worn. Deco design to upper board. Cookery book supplied free with every cooker bought.

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Book number: 37872

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Featured|Ephemera|Cookery

HORNER, Isabel

A.B. C. Of Homemaking.

London, The English Universities Press, 1949. 8vo. in original illustrated cloth and dust-wrapper, 320 pp. b/w in-text illustrations throughout, colour plates. A very nice bright copy, neat presentation inscription inside. Dwust-wrapper just a little chipped at edges. Splendidly 'vintage' 1940s design and techniques for all home furnishings post-war published during post-war impetus for 'Do-it-Yourself' New Look. The artist also published books on lingerie making, dressmaking and knitting. Dust wrapper by C. H. Richard, other illustrations by Gladys Gliddon (sister of artist and suffragette Katie Gliddon), Olive Hammond (artist and cartoonist), Norah Ruthven. "With this book you can make your home both more beautiful and more comfortable and at an astonishingly low cost".

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Book number: 38034

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Craft|Art|Women|Illustrated|Featured|Vintage|Textiles

KING, F. Truby

Feeding and Care of Baby. Issued by the Society for the Health of Women & Children.

London, Macmillan and Co. 1917. Early edition of this classic. Boards a little warped and somewhat marked, fore-edges grubby, small tear to one page else complete. A tight copy, no annotations. Used; Good It is the establishment of the Plunket Society in 1907 for which Truby King is best known. Set up to apply scientific principles to nutrition of babies, and strongly rooted in eugenics and patriotism, its 1917 "Save the Babies" Week had the slogan "The Race marches forward on the feet of Little Children". Truby King's methods to teach mothers domestic hygiene and childcare were strongly promoted through his first book on mothercare, "Feeding and Care of Baby" (first published in 1913, reprinted in 1916 and 1917) and via a network of specially trained Karitane Nurses and a widely syndicated newspaper column. Hardback.

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Book number: 36573

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Babies|Anthropolgy|Featured|Special Collection|Family

Mazza, Irma Goodrich

Accent on Seasoning.

London, Arco Publications, 1960. First UK edition. 305pp. in original attractively decorated dust-wrapper. Lacks f.e.p. else a very good clean copy in a dust-wrapper just a little worn at edges. First published in the USA in 1957 by the author of 'Herbs for the Kitchen'. When Irma Goodrich married her Italian descent husband in California in 1925, he couldn't eat her 'American' food. "Irma's solution was practical: she would learn to cook Italian ". She went on to became a popular and successful writer of cookery books.

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Book number: 37251

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Americas|Italian|Book-Cover-Design|Featured

PATTEN, Marguerite

The Care of Fabrics:

London, Ginn, 1971. Large 8vo in original colour illustrated cloth. 129pp. b/w in-text illustrations, colour plates. In good condition, tight and clean through. Faint girls' school stamp to paste-downs. Small crease to lower board and very light damp stain. Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten (1915 – 2015) was best known for her radio and TV cooking programmes and her cookery books in colour. During WWII she broadcast inventive recipes to make the most of rationed food. This book on textiles demonstrating her expertise in all matters domestic features glorious full page plates of 1970s textiles and design.

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Book number: 38050

Catalogue: Cookery & Domestic

Keywords: Cookery|Craft|Featured|Art|Textiles|Mid-Century-Modern