elizabeth raper (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1924. Limited edition. 94 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Limited edition copy 105 of 850. Rough cut edges to textblock with gilt top edge. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 94. Original publishers full blue buckram, lettered gilt on spine. Limited edition of 850 copies, this being no. 88. Portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. Slight foxing to endpapers and some fading at spine area, otherwise sound, near very good with clean text.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good ++. No Jacket. Grant, Duncan (illustrator). Limited Edition. Edited by her great-grandson Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. A UK limited edition - one 850 copies, this being copy number 524. Blue buckram with bevelled sides, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Lacks printed dust-jacket. The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean. The corners are sharp. The spine is gently sunned. The pages are bright and clean - there is a touch of ghosting to the endpapers. The closed page edges are dulled. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A handsome copy. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Grant, Duncan, portrait and decorations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback first edition in near fine condition, no dust jacket, blue cloth boards, bevelled edgers, gilt lettering on faded spine, pages untrimmed, no 297 of limited edition of 850. No signs of previous ownership. (Book ref. 7433).

Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. - Limited edition of 850 copies this being number 406 - Blue cloth covered boards worn and a little warped w/ moisture stains to top of upper board and joint of the lower - Spine ends and corners bumped - Spine tanned w/ gilt lettering faded - Edges of text block tanned - Ex Libris sticker of Evelyn Sainte Croix Fleming (Ian Fleming's mother) to front pastedown - Page margins toned w/ some small marks throughout - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - 94 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 806 of 850 copies printed at the Kynoch Press on wove paper. Duncan Grant's illustrations printed from line blocks. Peacock blue buckram with bevelled sides, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. Lacks printed dust-jacket. A very good copy indeed. The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper was announced in the 1924 Prospectus: 'Elizabeth Raper tells in this book not only how she cooked in a remarkably varied, rich, delicate and largely lost fashion, but also how she philandered, learned Euclid and papered the stairs.' (Dreyfus 18).

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tall 8vo. in blue buckram covered bevel edged boards, gilt lettering to spine. 94pp, (37pp extracts from her journal, the rest are recipes with index at rear), with portrait sketch and two line decorations by Duncan Grant (his father Bartle died in 1923 and Duncan saw this book through to publication on his behalf) . [CONDITION: A VERY GOOD clean and tight copy (spine sunned, gilt lettering still bright, smallish dark ink splatter to front cover and slightly affecting spine, elegant inscription on front blank fly-leaf dated 1930) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Duncan Grant (illustrator). A limited edition copy of this work featuring the recipes of Elizabeth Raper, with a portion of her journal edited by her grandson. Limited edition. Number 254 out of 850.Private Press.Illustrated by Duncan Grant, a relative of Elizabeth Raper, with decorations and portrait.This work features recipe's from the receipt book of Elizabeth Raper and a section of her journal, edited by her grandson Bartle Grant. The sections from her journal provide an autobiographical look at her life as a housewife, with her collection of recipes providing interesting historical information about the food eaten during that time. The original works to which this volume has been compiled from, were written between 1756-1770, with this being the first time the work was printed.In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking dust wrapper. Externally smart with fading to the spine, joints and head of the boards, very slight bumping to the extremities of the boards and marks to the boards. Very light spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages and the odd minor handling mark. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Nonesuch Press. 1924. 8vo. buckram, 95pp. edges uncut. A very nice copy. With recipes for such dishes as, Lamb Cutlets with Cucumber; Oxford Sausages; Oyster Toasts; Lobsters in Scollop Shells; Pull Chickens; Pistachio Nut Cream; Crocant Past. The journal is particularly charming: "Fuzzled about all morning. Made stomachers and etceteras to look smart at the races." and "Set to making mince pies made out of 30lbs. of flour, baked out all the meat; Mother made Welches which we ate hot; in form, told stories and were mighty agreeable till 2 in the morning then parted for bed.".

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. No. 530 of 850 copies thus. No. 530 of 850 copies thus. With a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. 1 vols. 8vo. Dreyfus 18. Dreyfus 18 Blue cloth, beveled boards. Slight discoloration to spine, else fine, in very good dust jacket With a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. 1 vols. 8vo.

Edition limited to 850 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 94, [2]; portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant; original blue cloth, spine gilt; very good in chipped dust jacket. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. Edited by her great-grandson, Bartle Grant.