The Dudley Recipe Book
London: Edward Arnold, 1909. Countess of Dudley, Georgiana. The Dudley Book of Cookery & Household Recipes. (2nd Imp) Edward Arnold: London, 1909. 8vo (215x150mm) blue gilt lettered bds, laid paper, gilt top edges 263,[1]pp. VG-/- bds faded, marks to bds & pps.
Second-hand hardcover
COUNTESS OF DUDLEY [ Georgiana Elizabeth Ward née Moncreiffe (1846-1929)]
The Dudley Book of Cookery & Household Recipes.
London : Edward Arnold, 1909. Second Impression. Printed by Ballantyne & Co, Lodnon.
Large crown octavo (215x150mm) blue cloth, gilt lettered, ruled and decorated boards, laid heavy cream paper, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, xix,[1],263,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author
Boards lightly faded, small ink stains to boards, edges lightly rubbed; occasional faint foxing. Gift inscription to front paste-down.
Lady Dudley was a Victorian Scottish noblewoman renowned for her beauty. A close friend of Queen Alexandra and the Empress Elisabeth ("Sissi"), Lady Dudley was widowed at an early age. In her later years, particularly during the Boer War and World War I, Lady Dudley served with the British Red Cross Society earning the Royal Red Cross Medal.
This was the first of two cookery books authored by the Countess; a companion was released in 1914. Handsomely published (at 7/6), with some 500 'simple' recipes with quotes interspersed. The recipes may be mostly uncomplicated but they are elegant and of the highest British Victorian fashion. Scottish recipes for Black Pudding and Haggis are included. A chapter on Housekeeper's and Toilet Recipes completes the cookery section. Unusually it finishes with an three short essays by J H Turner: Food-Evils of Insufficiency, Eating a Duty and Fruits in XIII and XV Centuries.
An excellent and interesting recipe book.
§ COPAC records five copies this impression; four of the first impression.
Item #4077
Price: $75.00 AUD