1941 Xd hardback edition

Copies examined

British Library: 012215.f.1

Title page

[A]2r

A CONCISE | ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GASTRONOMY | [swelled rule] | SECTION III | VEGETABLES | Comprising an Alphabetical List of Vegetables, Herbs, | Salads, Fungi and edible Weeds, and a selection of | American, English, French, Scottish and | Welsh recipes for their culinary | preparation and presentation | COMPILED UNDER THE | EDITORIAL DIRECTION OF | ANDRÉ L. SIMON | PUBLISHED BY | THE WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY | 30 GROSVENOR GARDENS | LONDON, S.W.1

Imprint and date

[A]2v

. . . | First published 1941 | . . . | Reprinted 1948 | . . .

Collation

[A]8 B-H8 [I]8.

Pagination

[i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-130 [131] 132-4 [135] 136.

Technical description

Medium 8o: 8¼" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 8didot Walbaum,(9pt. setting); 11didot Walbaum (11pt. setting); casing green cloth, blocked as ZAb but for number and name of the section: ‘III VEGETABLES’.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963

1941 Xda paperback edition

Copies examined

Curwen Press: G49

Title page

As Xd.

Imprint

[A]2v

As Xd.

Date

As Xd.

Collation and pagination

As Xd.

Technical description

As Xd, but trimmed 8½"×5½", white wove, no mark; 8didot Walbaum,(9pt. setting); 11didot Walbaum (11pt. setting); paper wrappers printed up spine: ‘A CONCISE ENCLYCLOPAEDIA OF GASTRONOMY [space] VEGETABLES’, and on upper and lower wrappers identicly: ‘[within a 42pt. border of decorative rules, a panel 6¾" × 3¾" printed green, with lettering as follows in black] A CONCISE | ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF | GASTRONOMY | SECTION III | VEGETABLES | [block: knife fork and spoon surrounded by wreath of berries and grain] | COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL | DIRECTION OF ANDRÉ L. SIMON | [short double rule] | THE WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY | LONDON’.

Notes

This is the third of 9 sections which together form this encyclopedia; it seems probable that each section was published in 2 versions, one hardback and the other paperback; also most sections were reprinted several times. Those copies examined either at Curwen or the B.L. are described here, but for some sections it has not been possible to trace and describe both versions. As a result evidence for the Date or the Wrapper colour of some sections may be lacking.

The complete set comprises I Vb Sauces, II Wb Fish, III Xd Vegetables, IV ZAb Cereals, V Yg Fruit, VI ZBs Birds, VII ZCr Meat, VIII ZDq Wine, IX ZDr Cheese + Analytical Index.

Where comparison of both editions has been possible the only changes found have been: the Society's address on the t.p.; the type of paper used; slight variation in page-size; one slight change in pagination Wba; and of course the change in the note of the Impression on the verso of t.p.

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

See also