Search Results: Cookery from David Ford Books

Mary Ford Cake Artistry Centre Ltd 1982 Step by Step Instructions. Hardcover book , first edition, 22.5x28cms, 320pp with colour illustrations throughout. Signed by Mary Ford to title page. Dust jacket rubbed with some creasing to corners and spine ends. A VG+ copy in VG dust jacket. Shipping will require extra postage. Pictures available.

London: Dean & Son, c.1910 Undated edition, c.1910? Hardcover book . Red cloth with white stamped titles and vignette decoration. 218pp. Small pocket size. Month by month short traditional British, French etc recipes, the vast majority involving meat or fish. Fair condition. Covers have various water splash marks to front and back; edges are rubbed. Quite nice inside, pages clean . Pictures available.

London: Macmillan, 1988 First edition. Signed by the author on half-title page. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 256pp. With colour photos throughout, beautifully and simply set out opposite the recipes. Good+ in Very Good jacket; book would be VG but blank flyleaf has been removed. Pages and covers clean. Jacket now in protective sleeve. Pictures available.

London: A. Millar, J. & R. Tonson etc, 1763 Eighth edition. Hardcover book . Full leather, plain with no title panel, two gilt ruled border lines to main boards. vi, 384pp plus index; octavo. Includes Appendix with new recipes. A book intended for the improvement of the cooking skills of servants. Fair only condition overall. The spine has split so the book is in two sections, the front board is almost detached, and the covers are very worn and abraded. The pages are generally clean, some are tanned, and there are various usage marks ; the first 100 or so have a brown stain to the lower margins; the closed edges are browned;there are no prelims before the title page , The book starts with the title page. Pictures available.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd undated All-Round Cookery and General Hints for Housewives. Hardcover book , 171pp. Tan cloth, very minor rubbing. Previous owners small inscription to fep. A VG+ copy.

London, The Institute of Certified Grocers, 1924 Hardcover book, second edition, 106 pages with illustrations. No dustjacket. With charming Fold out coloured disections of a pig. Showing,1 External Parts of the Body . II Skeleton . III .Circulation. IV Muscular System and V Section of Body and Contents. Complete except the first two blank endpapers have been removed. these probably had a previous owners name on them. The text and contents are not affected and are complete. A Good copy. Pictures available

London, T.N. Foulis, 1919 Hardcover book, first edition no dustjacket. Illustrated with 10 pictures, 2 in colour. Every thing you need to know about the history and development of tea and Teaism.The schools of tea, Taoism and Zennism and the tea room. The first few blank end-papers have various paper articles and japanes sayings relating to the art of tea drinking. Enclosed is a photocopied forward to the 1928 American edition of the book stating it was bought from T Jackson (probably Tom Jackson) and returned to him. A Very Good copy of this unusual book. bound in faun buckram with a bamboo design to covers. Pictures available

London, Chapman & Hall, 1896 Hardcover book , first edition, 216 pages including memoranda, index and publisher's catalogue. All the sauces your Grandmother made and more. Very Good copy with light brown boards with gilt titles to spine, light foxing to end-papers. A nice copy. Pictures available.

London: Virtue & Co 1980 Revised Third Edition, edited by Michael Small. From simple party snacks to elaborate buffets. Hardcover book , xv, 1240pp, including 120 pages colour plates, 64 pages b&w step by step techniques, and 2 comprehensive indexes. Dust jacket has v. slight chipping to top front corner. A near Fine copy in near Fine dust jacket. Pictures available.

Singapore: Tiger Press, 1953 Second edition, in year after first publication. Hardcover book . Colour pictorial paper-covered boards with green cloth spine, lettered in red and blue to front cover in English and Chinese, with printed image of Chinese woman. 156pp, plus index, quarto. With a b&w photo and various line drawings in plates. Introductions (including utensils, seasoning, methods of cooking and menus) then main recipes section; text in English with Chinese recipe titles as well. A Good copy. Coves bright mostly but with abrasions to edges, and browning with some small stain spots. Pages well-bound and largely clean, some small stains to top margins and the odd spot stain. Pictures available.

London: Gresham Publishing, 1937 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 139pp, h: 28cms. With colour (photolithographic) and b/w plates. Various authors on icing, pastry, slab cakes, fancies, meringues, small bakeries. Very Good in Good protected jacket. Faded cloth edges but clean; crack to binding but sound with clean pages, darkened top edge. Jacket rubbed to edges with some small tears and chips. Pictures available.

London, Odhams Press Limited. 1954 Hardcover book, first edition in dustjacket. 160 pages . A guide to sensible diet with simple recipes. A Very Good copy without inscriptions in a Very Good , edge worn dustjacket. Pictures available.

London: Dorling Kindersley, 2005 First edition. Hardcover book . Pictorial boards & same design dustjacket. 648pp, large quarto. Colour photos throughout. Recipes and articles from 18 chefs, including Marcus Wareing, Shaun Hill, Paul Gayler, Ferran Adria, Christine Manfield, Ken Hom, Charlie Trotter. Texts on each chef. Fine in Very Good protected jacket. A very heavy volume so extra postage may be required. Pictures available.

London, Robert Cadell,1831 hardcover book, A new Edition. 541 pages, no illustrations. This cookery book has been very nicely rebound with brown cloth spine and decorated paper covered boards. The title panel is red leather with titles and author in gilt, A very nice clean copy with hundreds of recepes and suggestions. Bound with Longman rees book catalogue at front and Robert Cadell catalogue at rear. A near Fine copy. Pictures available

London: Herbert Jenkins 1960 Slim hardcover book , first edition, 9.5x17cms, 94pp, Small date stamp to fep, dust jacket rubbed with some closed tears and small loss top left (less than 1cm). A VG+ copy in still VG dust jacket. Pictures available.

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1991 First edition. Hardcover book . Cloth and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 180pp, large quarto. With colour photos throughout, many whole page. The furnishing, style and utensils of a traditional country kitchen, including American, Spanish and French kitchens, as well as recipes, and the kitchen garden. Fine in Very Good jacket, which has a little light wear to edges. Pictures available.

London: Arlington Books 1965 A cookbook with a difference - starting with the live creature - how to snare and shoot, pluck and skin and then how to cook. Hardcover book , 1st ED, xiv, 157pp with decorations by Thomas Bewick. Some light sunning to board edges, endpapers tanned with some specklng to edges. Dust jacket tanned to edge, a few very tiny marks to spine, chip to bottom corner (less than 1cm) and tiny tear top rear. A Very Good+ copy in Very Good DJ. Pictures available.

London: Ebury Press, 2002 Hardcover book . Cloth and dustjacket. 352pp, B/w photos, map. A cookbook and family history: the author's Italian family who emigrated from Picinisco in southern Italy to Scotland in 1920, opened a food store and restaurant and passed on their love of good food. Fine in Very Good dustjacket which is .slightly sunned to spine. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Pictures available.

Auckland: Auckland Travel Club 1950 Compiled by the Auckland Travel Club. Dishes from the World's Dinner Table. Containing 1000 selected recipes. Hardcover book Card covers, 3rd ED, 175pp, some pages of advertising throughout. Covers rubbed to all edges with some odd marks, small scuff top right, red cloth spine rubbed, minor chipping to ends. Title page has 4 lines of ink writing to top, fingermarkings to edges. A G+ copy. Pictures available.

London: Network Books 1993 Written to accompany the Channel 4 television series this is a book of vegetable recipes - soups and starters, main courses and side dishes, salads and preserves. Hardcover book , 1st ED, 272pp with colour illustrations. Tiny stain to fep edge, dust jacket lightly creased to bottom edge, small closed tear to spine head. A VG+copy in VG DJ. Pictures available.