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Walker-Tisdale, C. W. and Woodnutt, Walter E.
Practical Cheesemaking.
Publisher: Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1919
Stock Code: 15495
‘Revised edition’ (i.e. the second), after the first of 1917. Duodecimo, pp., [2], 198, [2] of advertisements, half-tone plates, and illustrations within text. Publisher’s grey buckram; titled in brown to spine; titled with vignette of a woman making stilton to upper board; end-papers printed with advertisements for cheesemaking paraphenalia. In the publisher’s original pictorial dust-jacket. Newspaper clipping appraising women as farm labourers tipped in to front. Loss to head and foot of jacket spine-panel; soiling to upper panel; loss to corner between lower panel and lower flap. Binding strong and square, the corners sharp, the the cloth clean and bright. A single spot of foxing to fore-edge; very light toning to contents. A near-fine copy in very good jacket. A scarce and thorough introduction to caseiculture. This second edition (as described in the preface) contains additional material, including an entirely new section on ‘Stilton Cheesemaking’. £40.00