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Phaidon Press in Association with The Royal Horticultural Society, Oxford, 1988.. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0714824984 1st edition, hardback, large 4to, 144pp, colour illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper, edges slightly rubbed, price-clipped. . ISBN: 0714824984 .

London: Phaidon, 1988. First edition. Very well illustrated, quarto, pp 142, (2), the fore-edges very slightly marked and a small marginal stain to the last few pages, otherwise very clean internally, red cloth very slightly bumped near the spine head, in a very good dustwrapper with a slight internal stain. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Laos. While living in Tunis, his wife asked him to look for a cookbook on fish because she did not recognize any of the local varieties. Not being able to find one he wrote one himself. The original… Read More

Oxford: Phaidon, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 142 pages. The English Apple is a breathtakingly beautiful book which celebrates the visual splendour and rich diversity of apples grown in England..