Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage British


A Collection of Vintage British Cookbooks including Katie Stewart and Paul Hamlyn 500 Recipes Series - A collection of vintage mid-20th-century British cookbooks and culinary ephemera, housed in a red storage box. The collection includes a large hardcover volume of Cooking Better All the Time by Katie Stewart, featuring a dark maroon spine with white lettering. Multiple volumes from the Paul Hamlyn 500 Recipes series are present, including titles such as Eat and Be Healthy, Quick Meals, Fruit Dishes, Egg and Cheese Dishes, Dinners and Supper-Parties, and Families. Each Hamlyn volume features pictorial boards and the publisher mark on the spine. Also included is a softcover copy of Peggy Hutchinson’s Home Made Cake, Pastry and Biscuit Secrets with a yellow cover, and The Awful Cook's Book in a small red-covered format. Further items include the Woman's Own Young Housewife's Cook Book, a Newnes Key Book, and The Cook's Handbook with a pictorial dust jacket. The collection is accompanied by a promotional pamphlet titled The Tricity Cookery Book, featuring a colour cover photograph of a wooden spoon and vegetables.