Cakes and How to Make Them; Any one can Bake; Bonbons and Simple Sugar Sweets; Icing Art: How to Ice and Decorate Cakes; Home-Made Cakes and Biscuits

A charming selection of 20th-century baking recipe books and guides. This set offers five baking cookbooks ranging from early to mid-20th century, providing instruction and recipes for cakes, biscuits and many other delicious sweets.Including works issued by the Royal Baking Powder Company and the offices of "The British Baker" (McLaren and Sons).In the publisher's original bindings, including 'Bonbons' in quarter cloth and paper covered boards, 'Icing Art' in the original wraps and the remaining three in the original full cloth. With the original clipped dust wrapper to 'Home-Made Cakes'.Including the following works:Cakes and How to Make Them by Frederick T. Vine (Second edition, c1900)Any one can Bake (1929) - Wonderfully illustrated throughout with in-text coloured figures and monochrome step-by-step strips.Bonbons and Simple Sugar Sweets by Louisa Thorpe (1933)Icing Art: How to Ice and Decorate Cakes by Anne Anson (1937) Home-Made Cakes and Biscuits by George and Cecilia Scurfield (First edition, 1963) In the publisher's original bindings, including 'Bonbons' in quarter cloth and paper covered boards, 'Icing Art' in the original wraps and the remaining three in the original full cloth. With the original clipped dust wrapper to 'Home-Made Cakes'.Externally, generally smart. With loss of cloth to the spine of 'Bonbons' and marks to the boards. With varying degrees of rubbing and bumping to all extremities, heaviest to 'Cakes', which is also faded slightly to the spine. Wrap of 'Icing Art' is age toned slightly. Dust wrapper to 'Home-Made Cakes' is smart, with most notable wear to the spine head and sunning to the spine. A few spots and handling marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot to the endpapers. Bookplate of ones Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpapers of 'Bonbons' and 'Home-Made Cakes'. Last leaf of 'Icing Art' is clipped in half. Good.…