Green cloth binding with black title on the spine. Title and cook on the front board.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A very smart second edition of this uncommon post-war cook book, edited by English journalist Constance Peel. The second edition. Very scarce to find earlier copies.In the publisher’s original illustrative cloth binding.Published the year after the end of the Great War, the book introduces with the sentiment that people should appreciate the skills they have developed of using food with more care and an economic mind.This collection of recipes covers stocks, soups, fish, poultry, meatless dishes, puddings, breakfast and breads and cakes. Edited by Constance Peel, credited here as Mrs C. S. Peel, an English journalist and writer known for her books on cheap household management and cookery.After the First World War, she worked on behalf of women, sitting on governmental committees with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends. The book is in the original cloth binding. Externally smart, with rubbing and slight fading to the spine’s cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers.