The Country Life Cookery Book - with a few hints and reminders about the kitchen Garden

First UK Edition in dustwrapper. Octavo. 253 pp. Illustrated with vignette wood engravings by British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver Eric Ravilious. Publisher's dark-pink boards lettered in cream to the spine and front board. Boards a little mottled but the cream lettering bright, clear and un-faded. There is a former owner's neat name in ink and date (1943) to the front free end-paper. No spine fade. Overall a VG+ copy. The VG dustwrapper (repeating the Ravilious illustration for October) is priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for) and is pretty much complete but with some staining to the right-hand edge edge of the front panel, the top-edge of the rear panel and also to the spine which is quite browned. Arranged in calendar form with each month illustrated with a wood engraving by Ravilious, as is the title page with some extra sections on ‘A Few River Fish’, ‘Herbs in the Kitchen’ and ‘A Calendar of Home-Grown Vegetables’. A blissful little cookbook but it is s the illustrations by Eric Ravilious that set this apart. Further photographs available upon request.…