French Country Cooking beads With the perfect glossy pictorial

With the perfect glossy pictorial dust-jacket

with his bookplate laid down to front endpaper

Luká Kándl est un peintre français d'origine tchèque né en 1944 à Prague

otherwise a clean and bright copy

three further plates

French Country Cooking beads With the perfect glossy pictorialLondon: John Lehmann, 1952. Second printing of the 1951 first edition. 8vo. pp 247, [1]. Publisher's original dun cloth with brown panel and gilt title lettering to the spine, with the unclipped dust jacket designed by British artist John Minton. Frontispiece, decorative titlepage and full page illustrations and decorations all by Minton. Jacket bright and unfaded with minor loss to head of spine and rubbing along edges and corner tips. No old