Rose Simmonds (6 results)

Condition: Fair. 1937. Second Edition. 171 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters. Mild thumb-marking present. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Moderate water stains to boards.

Soft cover. Condition: Worn, Brown Edges, Age Spots. First.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Owner name to endf paper. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Size of image 9 3/4 x 7 inches, laid down on the original mount, 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches overall. Barraud's name stamped on mount. From Barraud's series "Men and Women of the Day". Mount foxed.

First edition. vi, 90pp. Stapled, as issued, in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Rubbed and marked, wrappers toned. Staples rusted. Short tear to head of title page, light scattered spotting. Presentation copy, inscribed 'with the author's compliments' to verso of upper wrapper, and with the author's manuscript corrections to head of terminal leaf. A presentation copy, inscribed and corrected by the author, of a manual on nutrition by Rose Murlis Simmonds, pioneering nurse and first vice- President of the British Dietetic Association. Decorated with the Royal Red Cross for her service in France during the Great War, her handbooks and manuals of dietetics introduced ideas as pivotal as weighing food for diabetic patients; her lectures called for the expansion of the teaching of diet therapy in hospitals, creation of diet kitchens, and recycling of food waste to feed hungry patients. Her legacy is remembered today through the British Dietetic Association's most prestigious award, to which she gave her name. Size: Quarto.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Joy Batchelor (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this very scarce cookery guide from British cooking expert Josephine Terry, with illustrations throughout. First edition. Very scarce work. With illustrations throughout. A comprehensive cookery book in which are to be found recpes for almost all familiar or well-known dishes, from grilled salmon to hot cross buns. Intended to guide the reader to produce a tasty and attractive dish in the least amount of time for the most economical outcome. Includes a culinary dictionary, guides to utensils, and commentary on the nutritional value of foods. Written by Josephine Terry, a British cookery expert who was the wartime cookery expert for The Daily Mirror and later hosted a British cooking advice television show which aired from 1946 to 1947 on the BBC called Josephine Terry's Kitchen. As each episode was aired live they no longer exist, methods to record live television did not exist until late 1947, and were used very rarely by the BBC until around 19531955. With an essay by Rose Simmonds, a British food writer. Decorations by Joy Batchelor, an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and minor sunning to the extremities. The odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.