Product Description
Four popular cooking volumes from Ambrose Heath's Good Food series of delicious meals, including the first edition of the original 1932 Good Food.
Four works within the celebrated Good Food series, written by distinguished food writer Ambrose Heath, published between 1932-1965, covering almost the entire span of his publishing years.
In the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with Good Food and Good Food Throughout the Year containing numerous in-text illustrations by Edward Bawden.
A very popular food writer of his time, Ambrose Heath originally began writing for the Times and the Manchester Guardian, before later writing for The Morning Post and publishing a variety of cookery books.
Writing with charm, these cook books also reflect the different dishes and meals desired during the interwar and postwar years.
- Good Food, Heath's first book with decorations by Bawden.
The first edition.
Contains monthly recipes to provide for a delicious year.
(1932, Faber and Faber).
- More Good Food, Heath's second book.
The first edition.
Containing more monthly recipes inspired by the success of the original work.
(1933, Faber and Faber).
- Good Food Again, a revised edition that provides various dishes, inspired with both postwar optimism and the remnants of rationing.
(1950, Faber and Faber).
- Good Food Throughout The Year, a new and revised edition of the original Good Food, with a new and reflective introduction written in 1964, five years before the writer's death.
(1966, Neville Spearman) In the publisher's original pictorial cloth.
Externally, smart, with minimal marks.
Slight fading, mostly to the extremities of Again and spine of Throughout, heavier to Good Food and More.
A couple of small marks to spine of Good Food.
Slight bumping to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities, with small signs of edgewear.
End papers are generally bright and clean, with signs off setting to front free end papers of Again and Throughout.
The small odd spot and slight age toning to end papers.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning, marginally heavier to Good Food and More Good Food.
Very Good
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