Reprint. 264pp. Grey stiff card covers. Colour patterned endpapers, taken from a 1922 design by the painter George Sheringham called Clusters of Stylised Fruits, Flowers and Shell Motifs. 12mo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, a little shelf worn with remains of previous price label on rear panel. Includes promotional bookmark, with a pattern matching the endpapers.
Agnes Jekyll, the sister in law of garden writer Gertrude, was a well known society hostess. in the early 1920s she wrote a series of essays for The Times newspaper anonymously, with recipes set against her commentary and guidance on home-making. All those essays are collected here in this volume.
