Ambrose Heath — Good Jams Preserves and Pickles

London, Faber and Faber, 1947 . First edition. Cloth. A bright example of the scarce first edition of Ambrose Heath's guide to preserving and pickling food, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work.In the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.The work of Ambrose Heath, a prolific British food writer and journalist, best known for his cookbooks in the 1930s and 1940s that promoted economical, seasonal, and wholesome home cooking.Arranged in three parts, this work discusses jams, jellies, pickles, chutneys, vinegars, and bottled sauces.With the bookplate of Martin and Pamela Finch to the front free endpaper. They were antiquarian booksellers with an interest in antiquarian gastronomy. Contemporary inscriptions to front free endpaper of each volume bar Sweets. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Bookplate to front free endpaper. A touch of sunning to back strip, with minor loss to back strip head and minor handling marks to wraps. Tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse at back strip head and tail, and head and tail of flyleaf folds. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good Indeed.