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

Gilt-stamped pictorial wrappers

and around an unfinished cookbook that the she had left behind

Venezuelan cranberry sauce

Filled with recipes for local fare contributed by the ladies of the church (roast partridge

with folding chromolithograph frontis

(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."