Quaglino; Charles Graves [editor] — The Complete Hostess

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, second impression of this very scarce illustrated work on hosting from restauranter Giovanni Quaglino. Second impression printed December 1935, first published in November of the same year. Very scarce work. Illustrated throughout. Quaglino moved to England at seventeen to work at The Savoy and further expanding his knowledge and expertise in fine dining. Eventually, after building a wealth of experience and insight, he opened his own restaurant and wrote The Complete Hostess, a guide featuring some of his top recipes. Written by Giovanni Quaglino, an Italian-born London restauranter. Edited by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves, a British journalist, travel writer and novelist who was the brother of writers Robert Graves and Philip Graves. Illustrated by Anna Katrina Zinkeisen, a Scottish painter and artist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear to the extremities and the off small mark to the cloth. Fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Anna K. Zinkeisen. Very Good .