Esther Copley — The Complete Cottage Cookery

London, Groombridge and Sons, 1859. Cloth. A very scarce eleventh edition of this charming cookery book for cottage living. Eleventh edition. Very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece. A charming cookery book for cottage living, with recipes for stews, soups, puddings, pies, vegetables, bread, cakes, and more. Including chapters on the choice of provisions, modes of cooking, frugality, charitable cooking, and cooking for the sick or young. Containing a prefatory chapter by the author's daughter and a biographical sketch. Written by Esther Copley, an English religious tractarian and a prolific writer of didactic books for children. 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. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. A split in the cloth to the rear joint resulting in slight lifting of the spine. Minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and minor age toning to the extremities. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .