Elizabeth Silvester — Silvester&Apos;S Sensible Cookery

London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1927. Cloth. A smart revised and enlarged edition of this illustrated cookery book from Elizabeth Silvester. Revised and enlarged. Scarce work. With sixteen in-text images. A charming guide to cookery with simple recipes for all levels of cook from the amateur to the professional, built from twenty-seven years of cooking, teaching cookery, and a study of the subject from the author. With chapters on food values, hay box cookers, different ways of cooking meat, and more. Written by Elizabeth Silvester, a British cook, first class diplome in high-class and artisan cookery, and lecturer to Women's Institutes. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities resulting in light fraying to the board tips. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, further spotting to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .