Jennifer Davies — The Victorian Kitchen; the Victorian Kitchen Garden

London, BBC Books, 1989-1990. First edition. Cloth. A richly illustrated two-volume BBC companion set offering guidance on authentic period cookery and traditional walled-garden horticulture. In the publisher's original brown cloth bindings, complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.This is a two-volume set of cookery and horticultural titles by the series" associate producer, consisting of:  The Victorian Kitchen (1989) This volume is a first edition. The companion to the 1989 BBC series with cook Ruth Mott, exploring "below stairs" life, period kitchen equipment, food preservation, daily meal routines, with adapted Victorian recipes. The Victorian Kitchen Garden (1990). This edition is a reprint of the first edition. This copy is the companion to the 1987 BBC2 series with Peter Thoday and head gardener Harry Dodson, documenting the restoration of a Victorian walled garden and traditional season-by-season gardening. Each volume is richly illustrated with period engravings and colour photographs from the BBC productions. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, lovely. The slightest fading and rubbing to extremities. Dust wrappers, excellent. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. One or two slight handling marks to dust wrapper of "Victorian Kitchen". Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Near Fine.