mrs jessop (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 237 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Green cloth with white lettering to spine. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, some minor rubbing to edges and ends of spine, lettering on spine rubbed. Neat inscription to endpaper ?B. M. Cooper.? Dark heavy foxing to title page and prelims, dark foxing spots to inside pages throughout. Else overall a clean and tight copy. Still very rare and scarce. 235pp. + 2pp ads. Illustrated with a B&W photo frontis plate.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Privately published by The Three Shields Gallery, 8 Holland St. London W8. Printed by James Wakeham & Co. n.d. c.1930. Green soft card wraps fading at edges, cream paper 18pp. plus 3 for Additional Recipes, staples rusted but holding. Not listed in any of the usual libraries. A little pamphlet of fairly conservative recipes under the headings: Breakfast; Mid-Day Dinner; Evening Dinner; Sweet Dishes; Sauces and Sundries.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An early example of this scarce early 20th century guide to a gout-friendly or low-purine diet, aiming to limit gout in individuals. The seventh thousand of this scarce work.With a frontispiece.A specialised cookbook aimed at those managing conditions like gout through diet.This work offers a wide range of recipes free from purine-rich ingredients thought to contribute to excess uric acid, aligning with contemporary medical theories on diet and disease prevention.With two pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip lightly age toned, otherwise externally excellent. Rear hinge lightly strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd light spot or handling mark. Very Good. book.