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A pleasing collection of 20th-century cookery books, including Eugene Christian's raw food recipes and Elizabeth Craig's everyday menus. A very smart selection of eighteen cookery books, spanning from 1903-1959 and offering a range of English, French and American recipes at different skill levels.With notable authors including raw foodism writer Eugene Christian, influential Boston cooking teacher Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln, Scottish journalist and home economist Elizabeth Craig, and British nutritionist and inventor of the wartime Grant loaf, Doris Grant.In the original cloth bindings.The entirety of this set includes the following:'Menus Made Easy; or How to Order Dinner and Give the Dishes Their French Names' by Nancy Lake (1903)'Uncooked Foods and How to Use Them: A Treatise on How to Get the Highest Form of Animal Energy from Food, with Recipes for Preparation, Healthful Combinations and Menus' by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Christian (1904) - Fifth edition, revised and enlarged'Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What to Do and What Not to Do in Cooking' by Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln (1909) - Revised edition, containing over 250 additional recipes.'Berridge House Recipe Book' (1910)'Economical Cookery' by Kate Addison (1912) - Revised and enlarged by M. Clare E. Addison'French Cookery for English Homes' (1912) - Fifth impression'The Practical Daily Menu: Suggestions and Recipes for 365 Breakfasts, 365 Dinners, 365 Suppers' by Christina B. Peacock (1926)'1500 Everyday Menus: Daily Menus for a Year with 200 Menus for Special Occasions' / Elizabeth Craig's Household Library (c1930)'French Dishes for English Tables: Soups & Potages, Hors d'Oeuvre, Salads' by J. Berjane (1931) - In-text decorations by Bethell-Jones.'Vegetarian Cookery' by Florence A. George (1936) - Sixth impression'Sweet-Making for Everywoman' by Sonia Agnew (1936)'The A.I Cookery Book: Containing Everything Essential for Those Who Wish to Have Plain Food Daintily Prepared' by Helen N. Lawson (1946) - Fifth revised edition'Carefree Cookery: A Beginner's Book with General Directions and Over 300 Simple Tested Recipes, Especially Written for Brides and Bachelors' by Dorothy Anne Adamson (1947) - Second edition'Dear Housewives' by Doris Grant (1954) - Second impression'Beer and Vittels' by Elizabeth Craig (1955)'Housewives Beware' by Doris Grant (1958)'Peggy Hutchinson's Do's and Don'ts of Wine Making' (1959) In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with moderate rubbing and bumping across the set, most notable instances to 'French Dishes' and 'Boston'. Most notable marks to the cloth of 'Boston', 'Vegetarian Cookery', 'A.I. Cookery Book' and 'French Dishes'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers and mostly the odd spotting concentrated towards the front and rear leaves. With more scattered spots throughout 'French Cookery for English Homes'. With an ownership bookplate of ones Martina and Pamela Finch to each of the front free endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper of 'Economical Cookery'. Very Good.
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