Constant spry and rosemary spry (1 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, New York. 1957. 1246 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Acetate DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (closed tears present to the extremities; triangular chip present to the rear panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "In the late 1920's Constance Spry opened a small flower shop. She started a floristry school and founded the Cordon Bleu Cookery School with Rosemary Hume and later opened Winkfield Place, the residential school near Windsor. Rosemary Hume opened her cookery school 'Au Petit Cordon Bleu in London having graduated from the Cordon Bleu Cookery School in Paris." from the flap. "Cookery is vast, detailed, and lovely. The purpose of the book was to take the knowledge of culinary professionals and write it in a form that British housewives could understand and use. It was, and it remains, the British cookery [and cooking] bible." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…