Bidspirit auction | A Collection of British Wartime

A Collection of British Wartime and Mid-20th Century Cookery and Domestic Pamphlets - A collection of vintage softcover pamphlets and paper ephemera focusing on British domestic life and food rationing during the mid-20th century. The lot includes various instructional guides and recipe booklets in octavo and smaller formats. Notable titles include The Stork Wartime Cookery Book, featuring an orange cover with a stork illustration; Wartime Cakes, Breads, Biscuits by Irene Veal, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1943; and The Recipe Book Atora The Good Beef Suet, which depicts a child carrying a large pudding. Other items include The Doctors' Cookery; The New Herring Book, featuring a photographic portrait of Merle Oberon on the upper cover; and a Radiation Recipe Book by Mrs C. S. Peel. The collection also contains instructional leaflets such as Tomato Growing Is Not Difficult and How to Grow Onions, alongside a booklet titled Fruit Bottling published by Cross Bros. Ltd., Cardiff, and a pink-covered publication titled What’s Cooking?. A set of Assorted Household Gummed Labels is also present. Most items are bound in original pictorial paper wrappers with stapled spines.