Food & Drink from Bristow and Garland

Small 4to, old calf backed marbled boards; rubbed."To Bottle Gooseberries, damsons etc"; "To Boil a Sheep's Head"; "To Cure a Ham of 20lbs weight"; "For velvelt Painting Miss Lawrence Receipt July the 3/1818""To stain wood in imitation of Indian cabinet" etc. etc. Together with a few printed cuttins, advertisements, etc.

London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. Engraved title vignette, other engraved vignettes and pictorial initials. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), pages: xvi:408, the half-title is present. Attractively bound 20th Century 3/4 tan calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and with burgundy lettering piece, uncut. A good large copy. Some light foxing, discolouration from damp/mould… Read more about this item

Ward, Lock, London, 1923. Thick 8vo (8 5/8 x 6 x 3 3/4 inches), 1,680-pages. Original red blinstamped & gilt-lettered cloth backed green cloth boards. In very cood condition.

By Authority, Delhi, 1943. 15 plates including large folding plate of Field Cookery Apparatus. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches), original cloth-backed printed boards; boards soiled. Uncommon.

CPI Aubin Imprimeur, 2011. First edition. Well illustrated. Tall 8vo 9 3/4 x 7 inches), 194-pages. Softback, original coloured pictorial glazed wrappers; very good. Uncommon.

Liverpool : Nuttall, Fischer & Dixon [1812]. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches), 560-pages. Contemporary half black calf, extremities rubbed, 1 1/2 inch crack and small chip to base of lower joint, all edges marbled. Overall strongly bound.

February 12th, 1952. Auction brochure, 9 x 7 inches, 4-pages, original printed wrappers, wire stiched as issued.

August 18th 1763-August 28th 1764. Approx. 200 items are listed totalling £10. 8. 1/2d. Listed are faggots at 1d each, Butter at 2d for 4oz, 1lb 2oz of cheese at 4d, etc. etc. Edge wear. With another single sheet, May 1st - June 1st 1764 totalling £0.11. 1 1/2d, this for 1lb 6 oz of Bacon at 11d etc.

The Tea Centre on the Occasion of the Exhibition "300 Years of Catering". 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 16-pages. Original coloured pictorial wrappers by Clarke Hutton. Wire stitched as issued. Very good.

John Lehmann, London, 1959. First edition. Frontispiece, decorative titlle and plates by John Minton. 8vo (8 x 5 1/4 inches), 191-pages. Original pink grained cloth with brown decorative title-panel to spine. Prelims tanned, front free endpaper removed else good.

J. Pemberton, London, 1728. [title continued]: made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various… Read more about this item

London: for J. Buckland [& others], 1773. Frontispiece and 4 engraved plates as called for. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: (40):400, contemporary full dark tan calf; rubbed, backstrip very chipped. Blank lower fore-corner of one leaf torn away without loss, another leaf torn also without loss. Crack at one inner gutter but firm. Hinges cracked but… Read more about this item

London: for Joseph Smith, 1828. 12mo ( 6 x 3 1/4 inches), pages 143:(1, contents), original printed boards. Title-page stitched in back to front. Lacking one leaf, page 97/98. Lacking backstrip, crudely re-stitched, boards very darkened and rubbed, browning or foxing within, stitching slack, piece of blank margin torn away. Poor but very rare; no copy on Copac.

Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper corners rubbed and slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper, else in all other respects, an excellent copy.

Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper and with a very narrow strip of fading to front of dustwrapper along edge of spine (barely noticeable), else in all other respects, an excellent copy.

London: Castell Brothers, n.d. ca. 1890. Three coloured plates and three coloured illustrations. 6-leaves within the original coloured pictorial card wrappers, silk tie bound. Verse. Rare.