RAWSON ANGELA & NIKKI KEDGE

Wiltshire Cookery ( Signed By Authors and illustrator)

Stanbridge, The Dovecote Press. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0946159246) Pictorial Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Angela Rawson. slight handling soiling to pictorial boards, signed with author and illustrator first names only under their names on the title page, xiv 138+5pp illustrated in line, traditional Wiltshire countryside recipes. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 009221

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Brisih Cookery Cook Book Recipes Wiltshire Country Life Farming British Folk Custom Illustrated Signed Copy First Edition Traditional Recipes 0946159246 Angela Rawson

RAY CYRIL

The Compleat Imbiber 9

London, Collins. 1967, First Edition. Pictorial Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG clean copy in same unclipped dust jacket, essays and peices by various well known authors on the topic of fine wine and foods. 224pp + frontis, illustrated. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005937

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Drink Entertainment Wine Viticulture Food Restaurant Drink

TAYLOR DEREK

Fortune Fame and Folly, British Hotels and Catering from 1878 to 1978

United Kingdom, IPC Business Press Ltd. 1977, First Edition. Slip Case, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. limited edition, red leatherette binding and slipcase, gilt titling, copy # 277 of unstated limitation, 177pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010061

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: British Hotels and Catering Service Hospitality Industrial History

COUSINS GEOFFREY E.

A Family of Spirit, William Teacher and His Descendants in the Scotch Whisky Trade 1830-1975

Glasgow, Wm. Teacher & Sons. 1975, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. decorative cloth, map endpapers, 174pp + plates, history of the Whisky distillery and company. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006177

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Scotland Scots Scotch Whisky Alcohol Drinking William Teacher Whisky Company Whiskey

BIRMINGHAM FREDERIC

Esquire Drink Book

London, Frederick Muller. 1957, First Edition. Decorative Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black cloth lightly urbbed to edges, gilt decoration fading/ rubbed, small stain to top edge margin of prelimsand also slight mark to fore edge margin of first few pages, name and date to fep, x 310pp, illustrated throughout, complete look at 'drinks culture' in the late fifties. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004837

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Cocktails Alcohol Drink Drinks Mixing Mixers Recipes Humour Anecdotes Esquire Magazine Retro Lounge Culture

FANCE W. J.

The Students Technology of Breadmaking and Flour Confectionery, Revised Edition

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966, second revised edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. pricec clipped DW rubbed to edges and corners etc, book clean, xx 443pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009471

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Baking Bakery Cooking Bread Breadmaking Flour Dough Food Preparation Commercial

DEIGHTON LEN

Len Deighton's Action Cook Book

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1967, First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, Landscape 8vo. (500 gram rate) good with rubbed edges and joints and faint crease to covers, landscape paperback with thicker than usual card covers, first thus (paperback) edition, a companion to Deighton's espionage series! 256pp VG internally on quality paper not pulp, but top edge of blank fep has been trimmed to remove a name. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005751

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Keywords: Cooking Cook Book Spy Thriller Fiction Deighton

A PRACTICAL MAN

A Treatise on the Manufacture of Spontaneous Yeast, And General Exposition of the Principles Underlying Fermentation, Containing Also Simple Rules for Governing Irregularities in Yeast and Bread Making

Melbourne, Slobom and Upham. 1892, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. sewn sheets in cloth covered boards, rubbed and frayed to edges and spine ends, gilt title to upper board hinges loosening, pencil inscription to fep "J T Norton Lyttelton 1906" with ink underneath " Mr R Norton 1927", J. T Norton was the deputy Mayor in 1916, paper stock is age browned, one leaf has been torn in half and has an old tape repair, some sheets are loosening but generally still holding well, 94pp with some illustrations, the author is mentioned as "a Practical Baker of 16 Years' Experience" (500 gram rate). Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011695

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Cooking Baking Household Economy Food Production Yeast Bakery Nineteenth Century Australian Technical J.T. Norton Lyttelton R. Norton Lyttelton

WELLS ROBERT

Ornamental Confectionery, a Guide for Bakers, Confectioners, and Pastrycooks

London, Crosby Lockwood and Son. 1897, Second Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. including a variety of modern recipes, and remarks on decorative and coloured work, with upwards of one hundred original designs, blue cloth wiuth black decorative titling, bevelled edges, light surface rubbing, all edges gilt, xii 96pp + XXXVII plates + 16pp adverts dated 1909, must have been bound up from 1897 sheets but in 1909, plates are in line and show confectionery tools as well as finished products. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006263

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Cooking Baking Bakery Pastry Confectionery Lollies Sweets Candymaking Vintage Cake Vicotrian Food

WHITCOMBE & TOMBS

Whitcombe's Everyday Cookery for Every Housewife with Meal Planning in Wartime

Whitcombe and Tombs. revised. Pictorial Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) Meal Planning in Wartime, xxiv pp followed by ; Whitcombe's Everyday Cookery for Every Housewife (293rd thousand) 326pp, papered boards over sewn sheets, minor silverfish to lower board, undated but has "with meal planning in wartime" so 1940s W&T stock # is G3506, tidy but has wear with loss to papered spine, SCARCE and COLLECATBLE war era issue. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005462

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Keywords: Vintage Retro New Zealand Cooking Cookery Book War Era Home Front Rare Collectable Collectible Kitchenalia

WHITCOMBE & TOMBS

Whitcombe's Everyday Cookery for Every Housewife with Pressure Cooking

Whitcombe and Tombs. revised. Pictorial Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) revised by cookery experts and leading dieticians, 313th thousand, with special section on pressure cooking, vi 373pp papered boards over sewn sheets, covers rubbed and worn to edges, hndling soiled, with light stains, small tear to fore edge of rear wrapper, some foxing to closed edges, front wrapper ith light vertical crease, undated but probably late 1940s W&T stock # is G3656, Contents: Meal planning, The pressure cooker, Appetizers (cocktails), Soups, Fish, Meat, Poultry and game, Stuffings and forcemeats, Savoury sauces and gravies, Vegetables, Salads and salad dressings, Eggs and egg savouries, Souffles and custards, Cheese and miscellaneous savoury dishes, Savouries and sandwiches, Cereals and luncheon dishes, Batters and doughs, Yeast batters and breads, Gems, scones, quick breads, Cakes, Small cakes, biscuits and tarts, Cake fillings, Cake icings and frostings, Pastry, Fruits and fruit desserts, Milk and cereal puddings, Boiled, baked and steamed puddings, Gelatin puddings and sweets, Frozen puddings, sweets and desserts, Sweets sauces, Beverages, Confectionery, Food preservation - jams and jellies, Food preservation - bottled fruits, Food for the sick, Carving, Sundries. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010547

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Keywords: Vintage Retro New Zealand Cooking Cookery Book Pressure Cooking Rare Collectable Collectible Kitchenalia

TULL D.W. AND E. J. NICHOLLS

Tea Progresses

London, Indian Tea Association. 1955, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. buckram binding, compliments plate from Messrs. Betts, Hartley, Huett and Co. Ltd. Calcutta affixed inside front cover, a new edition enlarged of "Tea Looks Forward", includes diagrams and folding plates of machinery used in the process of making dried tea leaf, 56pp + plates. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011313

Catalogue: Food & Drink

Keywords: Camellia Sinensis, Tea, Herb, Drink, Manufacture, Tea Manufacturing, History, Processes, Technical, Hot Beverage