B54 THE ARTISTS’ AND WRITERS’ COOKBOOK [1961]

[3 ll. in the centre of a swelled braided rug and doily design:] THE ARTISTS’ & WRITERS’ | COOKBOOK | EDITED BY | BERYL BARR | AND | BARBARA TURNER SACHS | DESIGNED BY | NICHOLAS SIDJAKOV | [swelled decorative rule] | CONTACT | EDITIONS SAUSALITO, CALIFORNIA | [swelled decorative rule] [All text and decorative rules in purple; upper design only in black]

Collation: [1]10 [2] –[19]8 2010, 164 leaves.

p.[i] cut of quills and printing press; p.[ii] LC card, typographer’s, printer’s, publisher’s, copyright and printing notices; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] blank; p.[v] [device] | dedicated | to the art of imperfection | in the kitchen | [device]; p.[vi] blank; pp.[vii]–[xiv] TABLE OF CONTENTS; p.[xv] FOREWORD; pp.[xvi]–[xx] text of foreword; pp.1–288 text; p.[289]–[294] FROM THE EDITORS; pp.[295]–[307] CONTRIBUTORS; p.[308] blank.

24.3 × 18.5 cm. Bulk: 2.6/3.3 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in white cloth printed overall with names of contributors in purple and olive.

Price: $10.00. Number of copies: at least 20,000. Published 1 November 1961 in grey box with arrangement of old cuts (3 × 4) and title on one side and title, authors, designer, introducer, publisher and price on other; spine blank.

Note: Graves’s contribution is a recipe for Sevillian yellow plum conserve (p.284).