Tried Favourites Cookery Book by KIRK, Mrs. E.W - 1924

Edinburgh: J. B. Fairgrieve Book. Reading Copy. Hardback. Twenty Sixth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 314 pages. This is a working copy, but then you come across Bombay Toast..

J. B. Fairgrieve & Co., 1922. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1922. 19th Edition, Enlarged. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining to both boards.

J. B. Fairgrieve & Co. Twenty-first edition. Cocoa-colored paper covers stamped in black. One small closed tear to front and overall light wear, near fine..

Edinburgh: J. B. Fairgrieve & Co., 1929. Twenty Second and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards. Good. 314 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. A classic cookery book from Mrs E.W. Kirk full of recipes for many different meals and ailments. Milk soup, mock turtle soup, jellied tongue, gateau of meat, hashed venison, marshmallows, and many more recipes prelude a large collection of household tips about damp beds, fur cleaning, curing sheepskin, and washing all different sorts of materials. This edition is also dotted with advertisements from the time. Ovaltine Tonic Food Beverage claims to build up the brain, nerve and body while Coult’s Hair Tonic claims “a delightfully fresh and fragrant preparation; very pleasant to use, and invaluable for removing dandruff and promoting growth of hair”. Binding is loose, minor foxing.

Edinburgh & London; Fairgreave & Co/ Horace Marshall, 1926, 1926. Hard Cover. Twenty-First Edition, enlarged. Octavo. xix,[1], 314 pp. Advertisements front and rear and to endpapers. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: Fair. Publishers' brown cloth with titles in black to spine and upper board, and posy motif to upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth scuffed at extremities with bruised corners. A slightly shaken copy with weak inner front hinge; toning to endpapers and scattered foxing, mainly to textblock edge. Lacks ffep; bookplate to verso half-title with culinary motif. Jacket nicked and creased to edge with small loss head/tail of spine and significant loss approx 3 inches x 2 at lower front corner with associated tear to front flap. This popular recipe book ran into many editions over several decades, forming the basis of many a household's offerings. The simple straightforward style and precise quantities made it easy to follow and all aspects of cookery from Soup… Read More

London, UK: Horace Marshall, 1934. Soft cover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 314pp. Printed light card covers, stapled. 8vo. Chipping to edges and wear to covers, folds to covers. Water damage to spine head. Pages ageing. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has major loss at spine, tape repair to spine and flaps, chipping.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Edinburgh & London: J. B. Fairgrieve & Horace Marshall & Son, 1924. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Poor. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which is stained at the margins, extending onto the edges of some leaves and the boards a little marked. The pages clean and bright notwithstanding the limited age-toning none-the-less. . Hardback. Physically 8½” x 5½” (0.8 kg); (xix) 314pp; Index; 20th (enlarged) edition. Includes: Recipes; Advertisements; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195171|| Condition:

Edinburgh London : J.B. Fairgrieve ; Horace Marshall & Son, 1910. Enlarged edition. Softcover. Date is approximate. Previous owner's signature. Poor soft-bound copy in the original gilt-blocked pebble-grain cloth. Hinges starting. Date of publication is not given. Physical description: 264p; illustrated. Subjects: Cooking, English. Home economics. Culinary Arts. Genre: Illustrated.