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A delightful collection of five educational cook books from an assortment of food writers. Five volumes. This set contains: Cooking Without a Cook, 1926. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixty-five figures on plates. A collection of selected recipes providing simple, appetising, and economical dishes for every season of the year, with recipes from "Homes and Gardens". The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 1937. New edition, revised. A leading American cookbook containing over three thousand recipes, carefully tested to ensure success each and every time. With simplified modern methods of cookery explained. Written by Fannie Merritt Farmer, an American culinary expert. Mr and Mrs Beeton, 1951. First edition. A biography of the Beetons, being Samuel Orchart Beeton, an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs Beeton (Isabella Mary Mayson), an English journalist, editor and writer associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. Written by H. Montgomery Hyde. Jean Conil's Cookery Classes, 1955. First edition. With a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A course of cookery lessons providing simple yet detailed guidance on the correct manner in which to prepare different foods and dishes. Written by Jean Conil, a British chef and journalist. First edition. Illustrated throughout by Irena Lorentowicz. Gathering some of the best culinary art in all of England to create an astonishingly rich and varied collection of recipes. Written by Helen Pendleton Rockwell. Cooking Without a Cook is bound in the original greaseproof paper binding while the other volumes are bound in the original cloth. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities. Original dust wrappers remain unclipped other than The Boston Cooking School Book and Mr & Mrs Beeton, which have been price-clipped. Wrappers are sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines with the odd small mark to the panels. Minor loss and closed tears to the head and tail of the spines of Cooking Without a Cook, The Boston Cooking School Book and Mr & Mrs Beeton, with sympathetic repairs made with tape. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good.
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