(French) Clarisse or The Old Cook. Preface by A.B. Walkley. Trans. by Elise Vallee. France Gilt-stamped pictorial wrappers

Gilt-stamped pictorial wrappers

There are also numerous Mexican recipes

with folding chromolithograph frontis

" Partridge with cabbage

with numerous engraved ads for items sold at the department store of Flint & Barker

(French) Clarisse or The Old Cook. Preface by A.B. Walkley. Trans. by Elise Vallee. France Gilt-stamped pictorial wrappersQuarter cloth & patterned boards, paper spine label, jacket. First English Edition. London: Methuen, [1926]. Purported to be by an anonymous French connoisseur, who then wrote under the pseudonym and character of Clarisse, a well educated chef to an aged bachelor, was originally published in French, in Paris, 1922. "Besides the many useful recipes, she gives much sound advice on the comforts of existence where they touch meals and meal times."