Diet and Commonsense. Leyel (Mrs. C.F. [i.e. Hilda W.W.]) Modern First Edition

FIRST EDITION, a small nick at foot of Contents page, a couple of faint spots at fore-margin of prelims, one or two light handling marks, pp. viii, 303, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with lean to spine, touch of rubbing at bottom corners, top edge green, tail edge roughtrimmed, bookplate to flyleaf for the Gastronomy collection of Martin & Pamela Finch, bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, dustjacket to a design by Peter Brooker, slightly browned backstrip panel, a few short closed tears, very good. Hilda Leyel was a cookery author and herbalist; in the tradition of Nicholas Culpeper, in 1927 she founded the Society of Herbalists and opened her shop, Culpeper House, in Baker Street. The present work, scarce in the dustjacket, focuses on 'practical systems of diet for health, and for every kind of sickness' (blurb) - managing to be at once progressive and historically-minded, balanced and opinionated.