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(Reference) Craig Collection. Four Hundred Years of English Diet & Cookery: A Selection of Books Printed Between 1541 & 1939 from the collection of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig.

$35.00

Illus. with photographs. Pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987.

An excellent guide to important English cookbooks collected by the Craigs, who lived in San Francisco but spent a lifetime collecting. They were a regular feature at rare book auctions and antiquarian book fairs, and clearly loved the joy of discovery.