Cecilia Maria Pearse — The Kitchen Garden and the Cook

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1913. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this charming work on the cultivation of vegetables by Cecilia Maria de Candia. The first Smith Elder edition.A scarce work.An alphabetical guide to the cultivation of vegetables, with recipes for cooking them. With chapters on the kitchen garden, culture and recipes, salad plants, sauces, soups, dishes, cheeses, cakes and puddings, cool drinks, little known vegetables, and hints of vegetable cooking in bags.Collected and arranged by Cecilia Maria de Candia, later Mrs Godfrey Pearse, an Italian-British writer, amateur singer, and society hostess.Four pages of adverts to the rear.Bookplate of Martin & Pamela Finch to the recto of the front endpaper. The Finch couple founded Matthew Finch Design Consultants Limited, a graphics group which specialised in design for print and publishing. They opened an antiquarian bookshop, Wadard Books, in 2001. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, a little rubbed to the joints and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Spots to the fore edge. Bookplate to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only a few scattered spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .