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THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 61

PENNELL (ELIZABETH ROBINS)
My Cookery Books, FIRST EDITION, 1903; and 6 others

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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PENNELL (ELIZABETH ROBINS)

My Cookery Books, FIRST EDITION, number 75 of 330 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, 28 mounted facsimile plates, publisher's cloth-backed marbled boards, spine label slightly creased and nicked, 4to, Boston & New York, 1903—OXFORD (A.W.) Notes from a Collector's Catalogue. With a Bibliography of English Cookery Books, untrimmed in publisher's buckram-backed boards, Bumpus, 1909—BLENCOWE (ANN) The Receipt Book of Mrs. Ann Blencowe. A.D. 1694, number 382 off 650 copies, publisher's boards, dust-jacket (soiled and spine slightly chipped), The Adelphi, 1925—SIMMONS (AMELIA) American Cookery... A Facsimile of the First Edition, 1796. With an Essay by Mary Tolford Wilson, limited to 800 copies, publisher's patterned boards, glassine wrapper (split at spine), slipcase, New York, 1958—AUSTIN (THOMAS) Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books Harleian Ms. 279... & 4016..., bookplate of Anne Phillips Young and old blindstamps of Christ's College Cambridge, later calf-backed cloth, Trubner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, 1888—[WAINWRIGHT (ELIZABETH)] The Receipt Book of a Lady of the Reign of Queen Anne, limited to 250 copies, publisher's green vellum, slight splash marks to upper cover, Medstead, Hampshire, Azania Press, 1931--CARROLL (LEWIS) Feeding the Mind, publisher's limp roan gilt, spine chipped, Chatto & Windus, 1907, all but the first 8vo (7)

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