Food and the Principles of Dietetics; Mary Harrison"s Guide to Modern Cookery; A Selection of Proved Recipes for Use with Radiation "New-World Regulo" Controlled Gas Cookers; The Yankee Cook Book; Kind Cooking; Fabulous Foods for People You Love; The Stove-Top Cookbook; A Book of Simples

A smart selection of cookery books, including a host of New England recipes, and volumes dedicated to modern stove-tops and gas cookers. Offering eight cookery titles, a number of which promote modern cookery or the use of specific equipment such as stove-tops.'A Book of Simples' differs from the other volumes in that it is a reproduction of an 18th-century manuscript of recipes, originally found in the library of a "distinguished Essex antiquary".In the publisher's original cloth.The entirety of this set comprises the following:A Book of Simples (1908) - Second impressionFood and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1929) Sixth edition, second impressionMary Harrison"s Guide to Modern Cookery (1929) Revised editionA Selection of Proved Recipes for Use with Radiation "New-World Regulo" Controlled Gas Cookers (1934) Seventeenth (enlarged and revised) edition The Yankee Cook Book by Imogene Wolcott (1939) Kind Cooking by Maura Laverty (1955) Fabulous Foods for People You Love by Carolyn Coggins (1956) The Stove-Top Cookbook by Mala Reynaud (1961) In the original cloth bindings. Externally, smart, with marks to the boards and fading to several of the spines. Damp stains to boards of 'Kind Cooking'. Mild rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Front hinge to 'Fabulous' starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages to 'Fabulous' are most notably age toned. Volumes are generally clean, with occasional spots to the majority. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper of 'Kind Cooking'. Ownership bookplate tipped-in to several of the front free endpapers. Good.…