Complete Guide to Sound, Successful and Attractive Food Reform

A very scarce third edition of this collection of recipes with focus on the presentation of individual dishes. Third edition. A scarce edition, with few copies available earlier than the fifth edition of 1930. A collection of over four hundred carefully tested recipes, compiled into twelve months of menus arranged for different occasions. With specific reference to the attractiveness of food and dishes, and the impact this can have on the desire for the dish as well as the lasting benefit of those enjoying it. Written by Maud Baines, a British cookbook author, and Edgar J. Saxon, a British environmentalist, naturopath and alternative health writer who was a pioneer of the organic movement. With the publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. A 1" split to the cloth at the tail of the rear joint resulting in minor fraying. With an ink stain to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers with a contemporary ink inscription and the previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Good.…