Elizabeth Craig. Gardening. A new, filly illustrated book for the gardener with little money to spend, covering flowers, vegetables and fruits. London, Books of Dignity and Service Limited, Not Dated (after 1937) 13 x 18 cm, 256 pages. With many B&W illustrations and photographs. Original hardcover. Blue cloth boards with brown spine (discolored?). Gilt title and author on spine. Decorative blind stamping on boards and spine. Very good to good condition. Some shelf wear. Corners and spine a little bumped. Not clear whether spine is discolored by age or was brown originally. Some foxing and age darkening. Name of previous owner inscribed on front free end paper. Front joint strting to open over about 8 cm, but still holding.Frontispiece coming lose, but still connected. Elizabeth Craig’s Household Library.

Elizabeth Josephine Craig, MBE, FRSA (1883 – 1980) was a Scottish journalist, home economist and one of the most notable British writers on cookery of the twentieth century, whose career lasted some sixty years.
Elizabeth Craig’s Household Library was published from 1937 onwards.
Craig started to cook when she was six years old and began collecting recipes from age 12. She declared that the only formal training she had in cookery was a “three months course in Dundee”. She began publishing cookery books after the end of World War I and proceeded through World War II and into the 1980s. She began writing in times when food was scarce and rationing was heavily relied upon, and her career ended when the majority of households had a refrigerator and an opportunity to access a much wider variety of foods: this can be observed in her writing as more diverse dishes appear in her later books. Her contribution to English culinary literature comprises a very large corpus of traditional British recipes, although not only this: included are also a considerable collection of recipes from other countries which she liked to collect during visits abroad. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Gardening · Reference · Sports & Leisure
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 100246AB

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