FOOD & DRINK from Fortuna Books

Melbourne: Slobom and Upham, 1892 sewn sheets in cloth covered boards, rubbed and frayed to edges and spine ends, gilt title to upper board hinges loosening, pencil inscription to fep "J T Norton Lyttelton 1906" with ink underneath " Mr R Norton 1927", J. T Norton was the deputy Mayor in 1916, paper stock is age browned, one leaf has… Read more about this item

London: Indian Tea Association, 1955 buckram binding, compliments plate from Messrs. Betts, Hartley, Huett and Co. Ltd. Calcutta affixed inside front cover, a new edition enlarged of "Tea Looks Forward", includes diagrams and folding plates of machinery used in the process of making dried tea leaf, 56pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? -… Read more about this item

Whitcombe and Tombs (500 gram rate) revised by cookery experts and leading dieticians, 313th thousand, with special section on pressure cooking, vi 373pp papered boards over sewn sheets, covers rubbed and worn to edges, hndling soiled, with light stains, small tear to fore edge of rear wrapper, some foxing to closed edges, front wrapper ith light vertical crease, undated… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: IPC Business Press Ltd, 1977 red leatherette binding and slipcase, gilt titling, copy # 277 of unstated limitation, 177pp. First Edition. Slip Case. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. limited edition.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966 pricec clipped DW rubbed to edges and corners etc, book clean, xx 443pp. second revised edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Stanbridge: The Dovecote Press, 1984 slight handling soiling to pictorial boards, signed with author and illustrator first names only under their names on the title page, xiv 138+5pp illustrated in line, traditional Wiltshire countryside recipes. Signed by Author. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Angela Rawson. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1897 including a variety of modern recipes, and remarks on decorative and coloured work, with upwards of one hundred original designs, blue cloth wiuth black decorative titling, bevelled edges, light surface rubbing, all edges gilt, xii 96pp + XXXVII plates + 16pp adverts dated 1909, must have been bound up from 1897 sheets but… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Wm. Teacher & Sons, 1975 decorative cloth, map endpapers, 174pp + plates, history of the Whisky distillery and company. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: Collins, 1967 VG clean copy in same unclipped dust jacket, essays and peices by various well known authors on the topic of fine wine and foods. 224pp + frontis, illustrated. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967 (500 gram rate) good with rubbed edges and joints and faint crease to covers, landscape paperback with thicker than usual card covers, first thus (paperback) edition, a companion to Deighton's espionage series! 256pp VG internally on quality paper not pulp, but top edge of blank fep has been trimmed to remove a name. First Edition. Mass Market… Read more about this item

Whitcombe and Tombs (500 gram rate) Meal Planning in Wartime, xxiv pp followed by ; Whitcombe's Everyday Cookery for Every Housewife (293rd thousand) 326pp, papered boards over sewn sheets, minor silverfish to lower board, undated but has "with meal planning in wartime" so 1940s W&T stock # is G3506, tidy but has wear with loss to papered spine, SCARCE and… Read more about this item

London: Frederick Muller, 1957 black cloth lightly urbbed to edges, gilt decoration fading/ rubbed, small stain to top edge margin of prelimsand also slight mark to fore edge margin of first few pages, name and date to fep, x 310pp, illustrated throughout, complete look at 'drinks culture' in the late fifties. First Edition. Decorative Boards. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read more about this item