Claire McInerny; Dorothy Roche — Savour: A New Cookery Book

London; Oxford, Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press, 1950. Cloth. A very scarce recipe book by Claire McInerny and Dorothy Roche, signed by McInerny. A very scarce work.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, "To Peter Skelton, from, Claire McInerny, February 1959". A recipe book replete with delicious recipes, modernised for the use of thermostatically controlled gas cookers, and electric cookers, and the use of refrigerators. The author's state in the preface that "this is a handbook for students and housewives".By Claire McInerny and Dorothy Roche. This is the revised fourth edition, second impression, which includes recipes for pressure cooking. Bookplate of Martin & Pamela Finch to the verso of the front endpaper. The Finch couple founded Matthew Finch Design Consultants Limited, a graphics group which specialised in in design for print and publishing. They opened an antiquarian bookshop, Wadard Books, in 2001. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Bookseller's label to the front paste down. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Spots to the fore edge. Bookplate to the verso of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn, with tape repairs to the reverse. Light handling marks and a few spots to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Very Good.