Henry Sotheran Rare Books and Prints

Henry Sotheran Rare Books and Prints

Food & Drink (& Parties) Food 1 Drink 16 Parties 34 HENRY SOTHERAN LIMITED 2 Sackville Street, Piccadilly London, W1S 3DP tel: 020 7439 6151 fax: 020 7434 2019 email: [email protected] website: www.sotherans.co.uk FOOD 3. BEATY-POWNALL, S. The “Queen” Cookery Books (14 Vols) London, Horace Cox, 1899-1904. £498 1. BAWDEN, Edward. Entertaining a La 14 vols. Small 8vo. Original beige cloth, decorated Carte: Edward Bawden and Fortnum and in red and black; some incidental water marks or Mason. Sparham: Mainstone Press . 2007. £98 stains to covers, and occasional browning to the interior, Vol V would seem to be missing the half 4to., original lime green cloth with paper label on title, though no sign of its removal. upper board. Copiously illustrated in colour Full set of 14 volumes, all First Editions. throughout. A mint copy in original publisher’s card box. First edition, limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. With an essay on the artist by Peyton Skipwith. Designed by Brian Webb. This delightful book celebrates the tercentenary of Fortnum & Mason with a collection of the advertising material Edward Bawden produced for this famous store: catalogues, brochures, order forms and envelopes all of which are today highly prized by collectors of Bawden’s work. 2. [BAWDEN, Edward] One Lump or Two. Tea, 4. BEETON, Mrs. Isabella. Mrs Beeton’s Twinings & Edward Cookery. London, Ward, Lock & Co. [1951] Bawden with Limericks by £98 A.J.A. Symons. Essay by 8vo. Beige cloth, with illustrated dust jacket; pp. Peyton Skipwith. Norwich. 256, black and white illustrative plates and drawings Mainstone Press . 2010. £48 within text; dust wrapper a little grubby otherwise Tall thin 4to, original printed a very good copy. card wrappers. A fine copy. New edition. “In this New Edition 96 extra pages First edition. have been added, making it possible to include nearly twice the number of recipes contained in the last edition”. Henry Sotheran Ltd, London 2017 1 5. BOULESTIN & LABOUREUR. A Salute to Marcel Boulestin & Jean-Emile Laboureur. Michael Parkin Fine Art , 1981. £28 7. BRUCE-MILNE, Marjorie [Editor] Royal 8vo. Original card wrappers; colour Home Catering and Cookery In One Volume frontispiece + [10] black and white photo-plates London, The Caxton Publishing Company and line illustrations in the text; spine and corners Limited, 1959 . £48 a little rubbed, otherwise very good. A comprehensive home cookery guide, very much Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition held at the of its time, with sections on everything from recipes Restaurant Boulestin and the Parkin Gallery in for children to pensioners. Included are over sixty 1981. The artists featured were all associated with plates in colour and black and white, the customary the Restaurant Boulestin. (HDM) chapter on serving or storing food, and the entire book is thoroughly indexed. No responsibility is taken for the results of consuming meals generated 6. [CALIFORNIA COOKERY.] BRIGGS, by following these instructions, some of them look Edgar William - Attributed compiler The positively lethal. Bride’s Cook Book. San Francisco. The California Bride’s Cook Book Publishing Co . [1912] £198 8vo., original paper covered boards. viii, 110 pp. Pp i - viii printed on pink paper. Unpaginated advert leaves inserted. Head- tailpieces A very good copy. 1st edition thus, i.e., Sacramento issue (Axford, p. 44; Bitting, p. 60; Brown 102; Glozer 37). Not found in Wheaton & Kelly. “This book is presented free to Bride and Groom with the compliments of the Advertisers therein, who make such presentation possible. We recommend them as the best in their respective lines and they will accord you the fairest kind of treatment.” With pencil manuscript receipes on rear blank. Lacking rear endpaper. Compiler & date of publication from Bitting, Cook & Glozer. OCLC records 2 institutional holdings of this 1912 110-page edition [UCLA & LoC]. 2 Food & Drink 8. BULLOCK, Helen. The Williamsburg Art of Cookery or, Accomplish’d Gentlewoman’s Companion: Being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most Ancient & Approv’d Recipes in Virginia Cookery. Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg , 1938. £48 Small 8vo. Near-contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, ornamented in blind; pp. [viii], 326, [8], 8vo. Original patterned paper-covered boards with [2, advertisements], two metal-cut plates; wear to belly-band dust wrapper which is torn but mostly corners, p. 261 a little mis-printed, only very light present, speckled edges; the edges of the boards are spotting or browning in places; a very good copy; a little rubbed with slight losses to the paper surface provenance : ownership inscriptions of Sir Thomas at the corners, otherwise nice, square and bright. Edlyne Tomlins (1762–1841), legal writer and his Tenth printing of this facsimile edition of the 1742 son with the same name, dated Islington, 1863, on edition. “An unusual local cookery book” (Biting). front endpapers. (HDM) Third edition (first, 1681) of a delightful companion volume to the Complete Angler , with a good deal of useful fish recipes, written by a Manchester-born 9. [CHETHAM, James]. The Angler’s Vade Lancashire landowner. The fly-fishing sections are rich Mecum: Or, A Compendious, yet full, in detail and apparently much first-hand experience Discourse of Angling : Discovering the aptest has gone into the book. ‘Chetham’s prefaces, in Methods and Ways, exactest Rules, properest Diogenes’ vein, curt and caustic while acknowledging Baits, and choicest Experiments for the the debt he owes to earlier writers, emphasize the way catching all manner of fresh Water Fish. he has improved upon their ideas. Throughout the text he provides an honest, if on occasions rather surly, Together with a brief Discourse of Fish-ponds, exposition of his own views. A second, enlarged, and not only the easiest, but most Palatable edition was published in 1689 and republished in Ways of dressing of all sorts of Fish, Whether 1700, possibly in the form of two editions. The belonging to Rivers, or Ponds; and the Laws Angler’s Vade-Mecum was an informative and concerning Angling, and the Preservation of influential account which established his reputation as such Fish. London : Printed for William a leading authority on angling. This reputation would Battersby, and are to be Sold at his Shop at have been even greater if the text had not been Thavies Inn Gate, near St. Andrews Church in published anonymously: some accounts have ascribed Holbourn; and William Brown in Black Horse its authorship to his nephew James (1682–1752), the eldest son of Chetham’s youngest brother, George Alley, 1700 £895 Chetham (1654–1729)’ ( ODNB ). Henry Sotheran Ltd, London 2017 3 11. [CRADOCK, Fanny and Johnnie] ARMSTRONG, Alice Catt. Who’s Who - Dining and Lodging. The “400” of The North American Continent. Los Angeles. Who’s Who Historical Society 1958. £98 8vo., original cream cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. Binding a bit grubby, inner joints cracking but sound. 10. COOKERY. The Cookbook Tree of Life. First edition, inscribed by author and editor Alice 1474-1861. Ann Willan, Inc . 2013. £98 Catt Armstrong to Fanny and Johnnie Cradock, “To BonViveurs Fanny and Johnny [sic]. Do we The Cookbook Tree of Life was created by culinary have something in common?!!! With best wishes historian and acclaimed cookbook author, Anne Alice Catt Armstrong.” From the library of Fanny Willan. This gorgeously illustrated letterpress and Johnnie Cradock with their posthumous broadside tracks the development of cookbooks bookplate. through four centuries and half a dozen languages. “This book is comprised of the most elite and It features original artwork by Keith Cranmer and picturesque restaurants, hotels and resort lodges. It was crafted by master printer Norman Clayton. is authentically dedicated to serve as an informative Printed in seven colours on 100% cotton paper, this guide to a discriminating clientele of tourists, 16 x 20 inch poster is part of a limited edition print vacationers and world travelers who peruse the run of only 200 signed and numbered copies. finer things in life.” “This tree of life shows the development of Covering Alaska, Canada, Central America, Hawaii, cookbooks, branching out from key early Mexico, United States and the West Indies. manuscripts and the first four printed cookbooks of the 15th Century. Emphasis is on Italian, French, German, English and early American 12. DAHL, Felicity & Roald. Memories with books. Cookbooks shown are key texts of the Food at Gipsy House. Viking. 1991 £48 genre; in later centuries, many more books of each 8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Photographs type were published.” by Jan Baldwin, illustrations by Quentin Blake. A near fine copy. First edition signed by Alice (Liccy) Dahl. “This book has many sections. The text has been written by Roald and Liccy Dahl, their children, close family and friends. The recipes are for all occasions, covering family birthday parties, Christmas and Easter celebrations, Roald’s passion for chocolate, onions and wine, his enthusiasm for gambling and gardening and finally a Dahl-style chapter: Hangman’s Suppers - contributed by Francis Bacon, P.D. James, John Le Carre, Peter Ustinov and others”. Each author selected their choices for a last meal before going to the gallows. 4 Food & Drink 15. EPICURE SERIES. The Epicure in 13. DAVID, Elizabeth. French Country Hawaii, The Epicure in Mexico, and The Cooking. New York. Horizon Press . [1952] Epicure in China. San Francisco. The Colt Press. £350 1938 - 1940. £248 8vo., original cloth with John Minton dust wrapper. Oblong 8vo., 3 volumes in original cloth backed With decorations by John Minton. A few nicks to boards, Hawaii with wooden boards, Mexico with wrapper otherwise a very good copy. green patterned paper covered boards, China with First US edition. orange with gilt flecks paper covered boards, preserved in original repaired card box.

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