(Cookery), a collection of 17 20th Century cookery titles, i...

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(Cookery), a collection of 17 20th Century cookery titles, including Lily MacLeod: 'A Cook's Notebook', London, Faber, 1958, 1st edition, original cloth, dust wrapper, scarce; Xavier Marcel Boulestin & Jason Hill: 'Herbs, Salads, and Seasonings', illustrated Cedric Morris, London, Heinemann, 1930, 1st edition, 16 plates + ills. in text as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, scarce; two others Xavier Marcel Boulestin 'The Conduct of the Kitchen', L, Heinemann, 1925, 1st edition, original cloth, 'Eggs - One Hundred & Twenty Ways of Cooking', L, Heinemann, 1932, 1st edition, orig. paper covered boards; Maura Laverty & Sybil Le Brocquy: 'Maura Laverty's Cookery Book', L, Longmans, July 1946, 2nd printing, illustrations throughout by the eminent Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy at the age of 30, before he was widely known, original cloth. Irish author Maura Laverty's first cookbook; Louis Diat: 'Cooking à la Ritz', L, The Restaurant Trade Journal, February 1946, 2nd printing, original cloth; Edouard de Pomiane: 'Cooking in Ten Minutes', Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1948, 1st UK edition, 19 woodcut illustrations after drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, orig. cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards; two scarce Good Housekeeping cookery titles: 'Learning to Cook', L, Gramol, 1947, 1st edition, orig. cloth, dust wrapper, 'Sweet Making Book', L, Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1927, 1st edition, original wraps (slightly worn, contemporary writing on rear cover in pencil and pen & ink); Graham Greene (introduction): 'Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book', edited Norman Douglas, L, Heinemann, 1952, 1st edition, chapter and other illustrations/decorations by Bruce Roberts throughout, original cloth, dust wrapper (by Bruce Roberts); L.H. Braun & W. Adams: 'Fanny Hill's Cook Book', L, Odyssey Press, 1972, 3rd impression, illustrations throughout by Brian Forbes, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus 6 others similar (17)