[The Tenth Muse] – Luke, Harry Charles [Colonial Cookery Book Manuscript Notebook].

Manuscript Notebook, Working – copy and printed version of “The Tenth Muse: An unconventional cookery book of recipes from many lands”. [Including Sir Harry Luke’s Manuscript Notebook in which he collected on 96 pages and loosely inserted letters/notes some of his recipes when he was travelling. The notebook comes also with his personal working-copy of the printed book, with sources for recipes / letters / heavily annotated by Luke. The recipe-notebook, written in the 1930s, includes several pages with historical recipes of Food prepared in Cyprus, with special recipes of “Kyrenia Salad”, “Apricot Brandy (Cyprus)”, “Kyrenia Tomato Paste”, Kyrenia Salad”]. Collected and compiled, with an introductory chapter by Sir Harry Luke. With the collaboration of Elizabeth Godfrey.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Putnam, c.1930-1954. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. The Manuscript Notebook includes 96 pages with letters, notes and sclippings included / The working copy with letters and clippings and annotations: 240 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke.

This was the copy of the book that Harry Luke used to make the Second Enlarged Edition.
Includes stamped on, numbered pages with corrections and additions to the text, additional recipes, notes, illustrations.
Comes with the Second, Enlarged, Edition, 1962. 288 pages, Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar.

The Cyprus – content in the annotated, personal copy of Sir Harry Luke’s publication “The Tenth Muse”, is especially interesting.

You are looking at two books:

Book I. The working copy of an advance-proof-copy of the second, enlarged Edition of “The Tenth Muse”, which Sir Harry Luke used to annotate and correct and which also contains original letters from contributors (about the History of Coffee in England as much as ‘Fesanjahn’, a recipe sent to Luke by Bridget Kellas, wife of K.B.Kellas, who worked for the British Government in the Embassy in Teheran, Iran). Many handwritten notes and small maps etc. etc. make this a wonderful proof of the though-process of Luke.

Book II. The original notebook of Sir Harry Luke, which travelled with him all the time and in which handwritten entries were made by Luke on location during his colonial postings all over the Mediterranean and further abroad

The working copy in which Sir Harry made corrections and adjustments, reflects clearly the original manuscript – notes
which Sir Harry Luke made when he was for example on Cyprus and collected recipes for culturally so unique recipes as “The Beccafico” (similar to ‘Ortolan’ in France). Annotations in the working copy for the printer are of great interest and Cyprus is represented with several recipes (so for example kavkaroudes / artichokes) and those original notes on Cyprus Sausage in his handwritten notebook, as well as the recipe for Cypriotic Apricot Brandy, are fantastic proof of Sir Harry Luke’s
diversity in collecting recipes unique to islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant in general.

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 30151AB

EUR 275.000,-- 

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