French Provincial Cooking

Penguin, 1986-10-30. Late Impression 1987. Paperback. VG++/VG/ND. Box X38 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Late Impression.* Date of Publication: 1987 (1960)* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated stiff card covers showing a picture of a dead duck and a candle stick from the painting ""The WHitw Duck"" by Jean Baptiste Oudrey. Red and white titles to face and to badly faded spine. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges, corners and to head & tail of spine. No visible marks. VG.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Minimal marking to edges. Seems lightly used. VG++. * Illustrations: B/w line drawings by Juliet Penny throughout.* Pages: 461 pp. text. lxiii pp. bibliography and index at rear.* Description:- From the Penguin Cookery Library. Elizabeth David must have done more than anyone for British Home cooking in the past half century. She introduced foods and methods which had never been seen in the kitchen before and this book first published in 1960 is still in print today (2023).* This is a NEAR FINE TEXT copy with minor age and cover wear reducing it to VG.*