(Cookery, John Minton illustrated), Elizabeth David, 2 title...

Hammer

£500

(Cookery, John Minton illustrated), Elizabeth David, 2 titles: 'French Country Cooking', London, John Lehmann, 1951, 1st edition, frontispiece, illustrated title page, and nine full page black & white plates by John Minton, original oatmeal coloured cloth, spine lettered in gilt within brown title block (VGC), wraparound illustrated dust wrapper by Minton (couple of small nicks and very small part losses at top corners and head of spine tips, else generally a VGC example with 12s6d price intact). The author's second book, a guide to the preparation of the dishes of rural France, a hugely influential work that contributed to the revitilisation of home cookery in Britain and beyond, and whose influence on British cooking extended to professional as well as domestic cooks, and chefs and restaurateurs of later generations including Prue Leith, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein and many others who have acknowledged her importance to them; together with 'French Provincial Cooking', illustrated Juliet Renny, London, Michael Joseph, 1960, 1st edition, original pictorial cloth gilt (VGC), dust wrapper (a couple of closed tears and slight wear head of spine/corners, else VGC with 35s price intact) (2)