Yellow cloth binding with black title.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A very rare  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze.

(A collector’s edition)

London: Chatto and Windus. 1925. 8vo. Publisher’s yellow cloth, spine and upper board lettered in blue; top edge blue, lower edge untrimmed; pp. [iv], v-viii, 451;  First edition, rare. Hilda Leyel (1880-1957) was a leading light in herbalism in Britain. In 1927, the year after the publication of this book she founded The Society of Herbalists, and went on to establish the Culpeper chain of herbal shops. It includes some fascinating recipes, particularly the Alchemist’s Cupboard; a set of recipes devised ‘once upon a time by a celebrated alchemist [.] to cure all the ills the sun shone upon’ .