DAVID (E). MINTON (J), illus.: A Book of Mediterranean Food. Decorated by John Minton. [Recipes from Provence, Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Syria, Egypt and North Africa] , John Lehmann, [1950]

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, illustrated title and numerous illustrations (several full-page) in the text; original red tweed cloth, backstrip blocked in brown and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy in the d/w, the latter with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and with one or two short marginal nicks and tears. DAVID'S FIRST BOOK, AND THE FIRST OF THE THREE VOLUMES THAT WOULD CHANGE ENGLISH COOKING FOR EVER. Lehmann's first edition of 1950 was a small print run, in relative terms expensive and tended to appeal primarily to the converted. Dedicated to Veronica Nicholson, it was also the work that combined for the first time David's highly characteristic style with Minton's wonderfully complementary illustrations. Certainly it can be argued that this is the most influential English cookery book of the twentieth century. Extremely scarce in anything like this condition. (Book ref. 19713)  £780.00

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