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Dorling Kindersley,, [1988]. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and numerous illustrations in the text; red pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated reissue of the author's first book, with Minton's original illustrations augmented by well-chosen plates by Old and Modern Masters. David contributes a new introduction written expressly for this edition; in it she provides a fascinating and hard-hitting account of her publishing history. The introduction to the original edition of 1950 is preserved. A well-produced and respectful version of one of the first of the author's three cookery books that changed English cooking forever. NIOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.

John Lehmann,, [1951]. 8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece, illustrated title and numerous illustrations (several full-page) in the text; original grey tweed cloth, backstrip blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at extremities. Published eight months after the first edition. DAVID'S FIRST BOOK, AND THE FIRST OF THE THREE VOLUMES THAT WOULD CHANGE ENGLISH COOKING FOR EVER. Lehmann's first edition of 1950 was a small print run, in relative terms expensive and intended to appeal primarily to the converted. Dedicated to Veronica Nicholson, it was also the work that combined for the first time David's highly characteristic style with Minton's wonderfully complementary illustrations. Certainly it can be argued that this is the most influential English cookery book of the twentieth century. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION