Mrs. C. F. Leyel — Green Salads and Fruit Salads

London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1925 . First edition. Cloth. A superb first edition of Mrs. C. F. Leyel's collection of salad recipes, a scarce work, presented in the original, exceptionally scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition.Published as part of the authors "The Lure of Cooking" series, comprised of nine volumes of recipe books, published by George Routledge. Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the British Library. A scarce work, presented in the original, extremely scarce, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by C. F. Leyel, known for her expertise on herbalism, founding the society of Herbalists in 1927. Leyel was a strong advocate of a simpler style of cookery, favouring seasonal and local dishes rather than "high class" cookery. She was praised by renowned cookery writer, Elizabeth David, who credited her recipes with teaching her to cook, describing her writing as "fresh and alluring". This charming work presents a series of fresh ideas for recipes of green salads and fruit salads, including salad dressings and vinegars. As with Leyel's other works, this collection features nutritious and delicate flavour, often using plants that can be gathered from hedgerows. From the library of Jill Norman, an editor and food writer. Norman began working at Penguin in the early 1960s and, as the only woman, the care of the company's cookery books fell to her. It was her responsibility to expand the cookery titles Penguin produced, and thus began to publish works by Jane Grigson, Claudia Roden, and Alan Davidson. In particular Norman worked closely with the famed cookery writer Elizabeth David, with whom she was good friends. Bound in the publisher's cloth, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with light bumping to the extremities and the odd mark. Bookseller label to front paste down and bookplate to the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is very smart, with light edge wear and a little chipping to the backstrip head and tail. Slight sunning to the backstrip. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Three spots to fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.