Madame Prunier's Fish Cookery Book. Selected, Translated and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, from 'Les Poissons, Coquillages, Crustacés et leur Preparation Culinaire [...] by Ambrose Heath. With a special foreword by Madame S.B. Prunier and Decorations by Mathurin Meheut.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, full-page wood-engraved illustrations, pp. xviii, 290, crown 8vo, original sea blue cloth, the lettering to backstrip and vignette to upper board stamped in a darker shade of blue, cloth gently rubbed at extremities, corners very gently knocked, a few faint spots to pastedowns, that at front with label regarding sponsorship of this work (by 'Violet The Lady Melchett, The Hon. Mrs. Malcolm Bowes-Lyon and Colonel The Hon. Angus McDonnell'), dustjacket with a Mehuet design to the front panel printed in black and blue, the marbled blue of the rest of the dustjacket largely washed away (evident to flaps), faintly spotted and with a couple of little waterspots to the backstrip panel, very good