Ambrose heath ed (11 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 249 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Compiled from recipes from the famous restaurant by the chef & collaborator of Emile Prunier. Several full page b&w illustrations. Ex-library with laminated hard covers, missing ffep, stamps on title page & reverse, a few biro arrows in text, pages browning with age, reading copy only. Mathurin Meheut (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Worn - Age Spots. No Jacket. Fourth Impression.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Reset and Revised Ed., Hard cover blue cloth bds, Good, some discol./staining at edges, unclipped glossy d/w, some loss at top edge, some staining/discol. but still attractive, pp310, contents have some age marks, b/w plates and drawings by Mathurin Meheut, 'Selected, Translated and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, from Les Poissons, Coquillages, Crustaces et leur Preparation Culinaire par Michel Bouzy'.…

revised edition softback with stiff wrappers Very Good small octavo xii + 298pp., b/w pls., text ills., index, Decorations by Mathurin Meheut. Neat ownership signature & paper browning o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 2nd. imp. Frederick Muller, 1955. Hardback, 8vo. blue cloth, 304pp. covers with a little fading and marked, contents very good no wrapper. Varied and colourful recipes from countries all over the world to lend variety to the post-war cookery of England. Recipes taken from Cooking of Our Allies a series of booklets from various countries published during the war.…

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. A curious and intriguing cookery book taken from the notes of an eighteenth century butler as told in his own words, with woodcut illustrations. A Butler's Recipe Book, a small historical cookery book compiled from the notebook of manservant Thomas Newington. Edited by Philip James, with an introduction by Ambrose Heath. Published by Cambridge University Press in 1935.In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with pink paper boards, and in the original clipped dust wrapper. Contains numerous wood engravings by Reynold Stones.Originally inscribed as a gift to his masters, Newington provides a cookery book with curious recipes and remedies, many of which are simple and some of which one would think mad. Spoken in his original words and instructions, it is a charming little book and an intriguing source for historians looking at eighteenth century Britain. In the publisher's original quarter cloth, with pink paper boards, and in the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with slight fading and faint browning to board extremities. Browning and fading to front of dust wrapper and the odd mark to rear wrapper. The odd small chip to wrapper edges, and joints have failed. Wrapper should be kept in protective covering. Flyleaves are clean. Minimal marks to end papers, with age toning. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean, with age toning, and the small faint spot to first and last leaves. Very Good. Reynolds Stone (ilustrador). book.…

Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Lacking jacket. First printing, with the expected sponsor's label to front pastedown endpaper (with rubbing). Pale blue buckram binding. Mark to front board, fading and slight wear to ends of spine, small bump to lower corner of front board. Browning to page edges. Tape residue to front free endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers, occasional spots to and a a few marks to text. Inscribed and signed by the author, Madame Simone Prunier, to half title page: 'To Mr. Charles Thornton. From the author 'S' to 'one of the few'. With best wishes and awaiting better days to meet again at Prunier's in Paris - S.B. Prunier, Sept 1942'. Also includes a printed menu booklet for La Maison Prunier, Paris, dated 1938. A rare signed copy of this highly influential cookery classic. Overall condition is Good. Size: 6 x 8 inches (15 x 20.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xviii, 290. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Signed by Madame Simone Prunier. Book has light wear, binding sound; very good overall. Some tears to dustwrapper, esp on the back . Mathurin Meheut (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1935. Edited by Philip James, wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone. Hardback, crown 8vo.cloth backed boards, 45pp. a few marks, fore edge foxed else a nice clean copy, no wrapper. A collection of recipes from the still-room and larder etc. With an introduction by Ambrose Heath and woodcuts by Reynolds Stone.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The First UK printing published by Nicholson & Watson, London in 1938. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. Some light pushing and fading at the spine ends and corners. Some offsetting to the blank end-papers and some mild toning to the text-block. Penned name of 'P.D. Wheeler' to the half title (?? related to the restaurant 'Wheelers of St. James'). Sponsorship notice from the Lady Melchett and Hon. Mrs. Malcom Bowes Lyon laid-down inside the front cover as issued. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. Some mild toning to the spine and edges, a light horizontal crease to the rear panel and some light markings to the spine. The wrapper looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. Edited by Ambrose Heath, there are 290 pages of famous recipes and wonderful full page B/W illustrations by Mathurin Meheut. The 'Prunier Restaurant' restaurant ran in London from 1934 until 1976. In 1954, Madame Prunier was made Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour. A very sharp copy of a handsome production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.…