Naomi Walford [translator] — The Happy Glutton: An Essay on Cooking

London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The first English translation of this essay on cooking with accompanying recipes and illustrations throughout. First edition translated into English. Illustrated throughout. A detailed and comprehensive essay on cooking considered both as a fine art and a worldly pleasure, exploring the art of cooking, the table, hosting, eating, drinking, and more. With accompanying recipes such as rabbits a la milanaise and asparagus en blanc, amongst many others. Translated by Naomi Walford, a British translator. Illustrated by Hugh Stuart Menzies and William M. Hendy, British illustrators with Hendy being best known for his work in Punch magazine. Both are artists for Fortnum and Mason's Commentaries. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with light sunning to the board edges and the odd small mark. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. The odd pencil mark. Good . Ill.: H. Stuart Menzies; W. M. Hendy. Good .