Phillipa Pullar (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A compelling selection of historical works all relating to the culinary world, complete with the unclipped dust wrappers. A intriguing collection of works on food history, offering accounts of Roman cookery, sugar as a 'sweet malefactor', the life of pioneering zoologist and natural historian Frank Buckland, and a fascinating study of the parallels between English eating habits, religion and sex.All volumes are complete with the publisher's unclipped dust wrappers.This set includes the following titles:The Roman Cookery Book: A Critical Translation of The Art of Cooking (1961) by Apicius, translated by Barbara Flower and Elisabeth Rosenbaum - Second impression of this new translated editionThe Curious World of Frank Buckland (1967) by G. H. O. Burgess - First edition. Frontispiece and fifteen plates.Sweet Malefactor: Sugar, Slavery and Human Society (1967) by W. R. Aykroyd - First edition. Six double-sided plates containing eighteen illustrations.Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite (1977) by Philippa Pullar - Book Club Edition. Frontispiece and twenty plates.Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent with shelf wear, most notable to 'The Roman Cookery Book'. Dust wrappers are smart, with loss to the spine head and the front cover of 'Roman Cookery', which has had archival reinforcements. With sunning to its spine and spots to the rear. With general edge wear to the other wraps and handling marks to 'Sweet Malefactor'. Spots to the wrap of 'Curious World'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with an ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper of 'Roman Cookery' and light spotting to the first and last few leaves of 'Curious World'. Near Fine. book.