My Cookery Books

ROBINS PENNELL, Elizabeth.

Published by London: The Holland Press Limited, 1983, London, 1983

About this Item

1983. Limited Edition / Facsimile reprint. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Unnumbered. Originally published in 1903 Houghton Mifflin Company. Description: Maroon silk like cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Language: English. Book Condition> Near Fine DJ Condition> No DJ. Pages [xx], [xiv], 171. Size: 8vo, 25cm by 17cm. Book Resume: Originally published in 1903, a bibliography of early books from 1600s -1800s in the author's library, also, an account of the printing history of her cookbooks and her experiences searching for additions to the collection Elizabeth and Joseph Pennell spent 30 years travelling throughout Britain and Europe on a Rotary tandem tricycle, publishing amusing travel books This book was written to record the details of her cookbook collection and her views on the main items [Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 1855 - 1936, was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London A recent researcher summed her up as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic", in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred around her London salon Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted]. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Cookery Books
• Publisher: London: The Holland Press Limited, 1983, London
• Publication Date: 1983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition.
• Printing: Facsimile reprint
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ