Cookery for Invalids and the Convalescent
1909, an early edition of C H Senn's popular book
Author
Publisher
Printing Details
Fifth edition. Hardback, bound in the original blue cloth boards with white printed titling to spine and upper board. 19 × 10cm, 120pp + ads.
A popular cookery book of the early twentieth century, this book offers advice for diet in sickness and nutritional values, followed by recipes for meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, eggs, sweets etc, with further chapters on peptonized foods, diets for corpulency, diabetes, consumptives, eczema, and old age, and for the gouty.
A pencil ownership inscription opposite the title page reads "E Foskett, Preliminary Training School, Guy's Hospital, London, SE".
Condition
Good condition for age, some rubbing, bumping and marking to the cloth binding, and light scattered foxing throughout but remaining in strong readable condition.
US: Customs duty-free. The price of the book incurs no extra US import fees. EU: Sent DDP (Duties Paid) to most nations. Orders to Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia are sent DDU (Duties Unpaid) and subject to local customs clearance.
Price
£15.00
