Author: Bernard Darwin [Intro.]
Title: Receipts and Relishes: Being a Vade Mecum for the Epicure in the British Isles
Description: London, The Naldrett Press Ltd, 1950 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this scarce guide to tradition recipes from the British Isles, illustrated with colour maps. The scarce first edition of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with twenty colour maps. Collated, complete.A charming guide to traditional dishes, arranged by county, and with recipes for such foods as Devonshire roast cygnets, Durham pot pie, Sussex lardy johns, and Fife broth.Offering a delightful insight into the food of old England.With an introduction from Bernard Darwin. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Loss of paper to spine tail, with bump to spine head. Small tide mark to head of front board, with light spotting to board tail. Dust wrapper front wrap detached from back strip and rear wrap, with significant losses to back strip head and tail, and significant losses to head of front wrap, and small chips to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Good Only.

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