Lady Sysonby's Cook Book. With an Introduction by Osbert Sitwell and Decorations by Oliver Messel by SYSONBY, Ria - 1935

Putnam, 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1935. First Edition. 311 pages. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with B&W lettering over cream cloth. Illustrated by Oliver Messel. Jacket has been glued to boards, and spine is missing. Colour illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Pencil lines or crosses next to some recipes throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Light soiling to endpapers and text block edges. Some gutter cracking. Rear hinge partly cracked. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable tanning, staining and soiling to spine and visible edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Spine is completely missing. Moderate wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Distinct tanning, scuffs, staining and soiling to DJ.

London: Putnam, 1935. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. First impression of the first edition. Dust jacket has small tears, is worn and creased, with rubbing to the shoulders It is in fair to good condition. Designed by Oliver Messel who also painted the illustrations for each chapter heading. Not price clipped. The dust jacket has been glued to the boards, as is common with this edition. There is some staining especially to the rear flap. Internally the pages are age tanned but clean. A handsome bookplate on fep and a previous owner's dedication. 8vo. 1935

London: Putnam, 42 Great Russell Street, 1948. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xi, 264 pages. Frontispiece and ten plates, all color. Index. Second edition, issued thirteen years after the original. The intervening years had included the war, and so the recipes are offered this second time with a willingness to embrace substitutions. Lady Sysonby has also included a recipe, "Queen Victoria's Soup - by especial favour by the Esquire of Windsor Kitchen, 1842", from her mother's recipe book. Some small pencil 'x-s' to a few recipes, and some light foxing. In publisher's yellow cloth, decorated with an image by Messel; very good or better. In publisher's dust jacket, with some soil and stains, and with an illustration by Messel. Scarce.

London: Putnam, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Introduction by Osbert Sitwell. Decorations by Oliver Messel. Binding cocked, modest edgewear, a few pages with a small stain, very good or better in a price-clipped, about very good dust jacket with a sunned spine, toning and a few stains, and chips and tears including a tear on the front cover with interior tape repair. The first edition was published in 1935. This second, postwar edition has been revised "with a special eye to present shortages, which [Sysonby] holds are no excuse for unattractive food." In the introduction, she notes "I have included many recipes that have been tried out and found satisfactory during the last seven years. I am therefore trusting to the intelligence of those kind enough to read this book that, where 'eggs' are suggested, dried eggs can be used, margarine for fresh butter, top of the milk for cream.

London: Putnam & Co, 1948. Second-hand hardcover. Sysonby, Ria. Lady Sysonby's Cook Book. (2nd Ed). Putnam & Co: London, 1948. 8vo (195x125mm) illust dj, cream illustrated bds, xi,[1],264pp. (introduction by Osbert Sitwell; decoration by Oliver Messel) SYSONBY, 'Ria' [Victoria Lily Hegan Ponsonby, Baroness Sysonby (née Kennard; 1874 - 1955)] Lady Sysonby's Cook Book London, 42 Great Russell St : Putnam & Co, 1948. New edition (2nd) revised and enlarged. First published November 1935. Printed by Unwin Brothers Ltd, London & Woking.  Introduction by Osbert Sitwell, decoration by Oliver Messel. Octavo (195x125mm) illustrated dust jacket, cream illustrated boards, xi,[1],264pp. Frontispiece and ten in-text plates, all colour.  Dust jacket neatly price clipped, spine faintly sunned; top edges trifle dusty; end-papers and edges lightly foxed; p.49 unopened; internally fine. A charming interwar cookbook founded with recipes from her Grandmother and Mother, that, as is noted in the introduction, were… Read More