Elizabeth; John MINTON ( illustrator ). A Book of Mediterranean Food

by DAVID

£1,000 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

DAVID, Elizabeth; John MINTON ( illustrator ). A Book of Mediterranean Food London: John Lehmann. 1950, 1953. 8vo. Two volumes. 1. First edition, 1950; 8vo. Original pink tweed cloth, spine lettered in gilt to ornamental brown background, in the John Minton illustrated dustwrapper; pp. 191, [1], two-page frontispiece, illustrations throughout; a well-used copy, binding firm and square, contemporary ownership inscription (“Fay Behrman, Dec. 50”) to front free endpaper, rear pastedown and upper edge of frontispiece, her name additionally written in block capitals (with indeterminate doodle) to front endpaper and closed fore-edge of page block, additional pasted-in recipes now loose owing to dried adhesive, numerous marks from adhesive residue, further recipes in manuscript (pencil and ink) to front and rear blanks and endpapers, dustwrapper chipped and rubbed to extremities, minor loss to lower spine-tip and upper outer corner, adhesive residue to flaps; Provenance : previously owned by Fay Behrman (1920-2014); a well-used, much-loved copy in very good dustwrapper. 2. Fifth Impression, November 1952; 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine (once) lettered gilt to ornamental brown background (lettering now worn away), lacking the dustwrapper; pp. xi, [3], 191, [1], two-page frontispiece, illustrations throughout; lacking dustwrapper; a firm, square copy, rubbed to spine, cloth lightly faded to upper edges, small diagonal crease to upper corner of p. 93; inscribed by Elizabeth David to N

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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