Sproat (Eleanor M.) Daily Cookery
£75
from Breakfast to Supper
London, Routledge, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2s6d.
A practical cookery book aimed at the smaller household, uncommon in the original jacket.
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Later prize-plate to front endpaper; cloth VG; jacket slightly tanned at extremities but o/w VG.
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