1896-1964 Cookery Up-to-Date; The Odd Farmhouse; Mrs. Lucas’s French Cookery Book: With some Additional Hints from English and American Kitchens; Sauces: French and Famous; The Gayelord Hauser Cook Book: Good Food, Good Health, Good Looks; Cooking Ahead; The Home Book of Vegetarian Cookery

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

This set comprises seven cookery volumes, as varied as sauce recipes from French-American chef and culinary writer Louis Diat, to a charming series of anecdotes about life on a farm in the early 20th century. 

Other notable works included here are a cookbook from American nutritionist and self-help writer, Gayelord Hauser, who is best-known for promoting the 'natural way of eating' during the mid-20th century. 

In the original cloth bindings. 

Including the following titles:

Cookery Up-to-Date by Mrs. Humphry (1896) – First edition. With advertisements to the pastedowns, front endpapers and five leaves to the rear. 

The Odd Farmhouse by The Odd Farmwife (1913) – Presentation copy of the first edition, blind stamped to the title page. One leaf of advertisements to the rear, with a tear. 

Mrs. Lucas’s French Cookery Book: With some Additional Hints from English and American Kitchens by Elizabeth Lucas (1934) – Fourth edition

The Gayelord Hauser Cook Book: Good Food, Good Health, Good Looks (1955) – First edition

Sauces: French and Famous by Louis Diat (1955) – First edition

Cooking Ahead by Barbara Worsley-Gough (1957) – First edition. With fly leaves of original dust wrapper loosely inserted. 

The Home Book of Vegetarian Cookery by N. Berry Highton and Rosemary B. Highton (1964) – Second impression