NOTES FROM A COLLECTOR'S CATALOGUE WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH COOKERY BOOKS
first edition
by OXFORD, A.W
London John ansd Edward Bumpus 1909. Cloth-backed over grey paper-coveree boards. Paper spine label quite rubbed. Covers worn at edges, some soiling. Bookplate on front pastedown. Following several chapters on the pleasures of collecting a variety of objects, the author turns to a nice bibliography of English cookery. There is a listing of his holdings of English books on cookery and carving up to the year 1699, then cookery books from 1700. He ends with a list of his foreign books and manuscripts, works on Fountain Abbey, and finally works of Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. A true collector!!. First edition.. (Inventory #: 002231)