T. A. Layton — Choose Your Wine & Choose Your Vegetables

London, Duckworth, 1959-1963. First edition. Cloth. Two smart first edition volumes on selecting the best produce from T. A. Layton, one volume has been signed and inscribed by the author. Two volumes. First editions. Written by Thomas A. Layton, a celebrated British caterer, restaurateur, and cheese connoisseur who was instrumental in bringing good, moderately priced wines to the tables of middle-class Londoners. This set contains: Choose Your Wine, 1959. A guide for the amateur wine drinker to select the best tasting wines with the most moderate pricing. With chapters on wine making, a history of wine, handling wine, and the wines of different regions. Choose Your Vegetables, 1963. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page to a friend named Derek, in Spanish. An admirable blend of botany, history, horticulture, and gastronomy, with a dash of autobiography and plain gossip thrown in. Containing a great deal of unexpected and suggestive information, appealing to all who take their dining seriously. Choose Your Wine is bound in the original paper covered boards while Choose Your Vegetables is bound in the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are smart with light wear and creasing to the panel edges. Minor sunning to the spines with the odd small mark. Age toning to the front flyleaf of Choose Your Wine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper of Choose Your Vegetables. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.