DAVID, Elizabeth; MINTON, John (illustrator).

French Country Cooking.

Stock Code 109286

London, John Lehmann, 1951

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An exceptional copy of this first edition of Elizabeth David's second book, still a core text and inspiration for any aspiring cook over seventy years on. Rare in this condition.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; full-page illustrations and decorations by John Minton throughout, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper; publisher's beige cloth, brown decorative panel and gilt lettering to spine, slight offsetting to endpapers, minor spotting to fore-edge, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket by John Minton, without fading, loss or tears; a near-fine example.

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