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Price: US$82.68 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. in blue buckram covered bevel edged boards, gilt lettering to spine. 94pp, (37pp extracts from her journal, the rest are recipes with index at rear), with portrait sketch and two line decorations by Duncan Grant (his father Bartle died in 1923 and Duncan saw this book through to publication on his behalf) CONDITION: A VERY GOOD clean and tight copy (spine sunned, gilt lettering still bright, smallish dark ink splatter to front cover and slightly affecting spine, elegant inscription on front blank fly-leaf dated 1930) ] ._ ._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS
Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition copy of this work featuring the recipes of Elizabeth Raper, with a portion of her journal edited by her grandson. Limited edition. Number 254 out of 850.Private Press.Illustrated by Duncan Grant, a relative of Elizabeth Raper, with decorations and portrait.This work features recipe's from the receipt book of Elizabeth Raper and a section of her journal, edited by her grandson Bartle Grant. The sections from her journal provide an autobiographical look at her life as a housewife, with her collection of recipes providing interesting historical information about the food eaten during that time. The original works to which this volume has been compiled from, were written between 1756-1770, with this being the first time the work was printed.In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth. Lacking dust wrapper. Externally smart with fading to the spine, joints and head of the boards, very slight bumping to the extremities of the boards and marks to the boards. Very light spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages and the odd minor handling mark. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Raper, Elizabeth. Receipt Book, The. Nonesuch Press, London, 1924.
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Condition: Good
Description: 95 pages. Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. And a portion of her Cipher Journal. Edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Boards are sunned to edges.
Seller: Books & Bygones, Reading, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Nonesuch Press. 1924. 8vo. buckram, 95pp. edges uncut. A very nice copy. With recipes for such dishes as, Lamb Cutlets with Cucumber; Oxford Sausages; Oyster Toasts; Lobsters in Scollop Shells; Pull Chickens; Pistachio Nut Cream; Crocant Past. The journal is particularly charming: "Fuzzled about all morning. Made stomachers and etceteras to look smart at the races." and "Set to making mince pies made out of 30lbs. of flour, baked out all the meat; Mother made Welches which we ate hot; in form, told stories and were mighty agreeable till 2 in the morning then parted for bed."
Seller: Janet Clarke Books ABA, Bath, United Kingdom