SINCLAIR ROHDE, Eleanour. The Wartime Vegetable Garden
SINCLAIR ROHDE, Eleanour. The Wartime Vegetable Garden. London: The Medici Society. 1942. Fourth impression. 8vo. Illustrated card wraps designed by H. K. A very good copy, the edges a little rubbed and creased but the binding sound. Ink ownership inscription to title page, else clean.
An impressive and charming volume on vegetable cultivation published in accordance with the government's Dig for Victory scheme, which ensured the British public were better fed than the enemy. The volume provides direct substitutes to consider growing--Haricot beans have more protein than a first-rate cut of beef, for instance. Considerations on how things grow, what and where to plant, how to cultivate and indeed how to cook what you grow ensure even the most timid of amateur cooks can do their bit. Quite a bit scarcer than one might expect; we could locate no copies in commerce. Sinclair Rohde herself a frustratingly forgotten figure in the world of gardening and in the yet narrower space of wartime gardening. The works listed at the title page give an idea as to her output, and more recent analysis of her work have amounted to a re-evaluation of her genuinely vital contributions.
SINCLAIR ROHDE, Eleanour. The Wartime Vegetable Garden. London: The Medici Society. 1942. Fourth impression. 8vo. Illustrated card wraps designed by H. K. A very good copy, the edges a little rubbed and creased but the binding sound. Ink ownership inscription to title page, else clean.
An impressive and charming volume on vegetable cultivation published in accordance with the government's Dig for Victory scheme, which ensured the British public were better fed than the enemy. The volume provides direct substitutes to consider growing--Haricot beans have more protein than a first-rate cut of beef, for instance. Considerations on how things grow, what and where to plant, how to cultivate and indeed how to cook what you grow ensure even the most timid of amateur cooks can do their bit. Quite a bit scarcer than one might expect; we could locate no copies in commerce. Sinclair Rohde herself a frustratingly forgotten figure in the world of gardening and in the yet narrower space of wartime gardening. The works listed at the title page give an idea as to her output, and more recent analysis of her work have amounted to a re-evaluation of her genuinely vital contributions.
SINCLAIR ROHDE, Eleanour. The Wartime Vegetable Garden. London: The Medici Society. 1942. Fourth impression. 8vo. Illustrated card wraps designed by H. K. A very good copy, the edges a little rubbed and creased but the binding sound. Ink ownership inscription to title page, else clean.
An impressive and charming volume on vegetable cultivation published in accordance with the government's Dig for Victory scheme, which ensured the British public were better fed than the enemy. The volume provides direct substitutes to consider growing--Haricot beans have more protein than a first-rate cut of beef, for instance. Considerations on how things grow, what and where to plant, how to cultivate and indeed how to cook what you grow ensure even the most timid of amateur cooks can do their bit. Quite a bit scarcer than one might expect; we could locate no copies in commerce. Sinclair Rohde herself a frustratingly forgotten figure in the world of gardening and in the yet narrower space of wartime gardening. The works listed at the title page give an idea as to her output, and more recent analysis of her work have amounted to a re-evaluation of her genuinely vital contributions.