The Book of Apples / Joan Morgan and Alison Richards ; with paintings by Elisabeth Dowle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Joan, 1940-

Richards, Alison, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Dowle, Elisabeth, artist.

Brogdale Horticultural Trust.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apples.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Distribution:

Faversham, England : Published in association with the Brogdale Horticultural Trust

Place of Publication:

London : Ebury Press, 1993.

Contents:

The fruit of Paradise

For pleasure, meate & medicine

For God & country

Apples for the few

Apples for the many

The cider story

Directory of apple varieties

Appendices (Cooking with apples ; Growing apples ; Further information).

Notes:

"The watercolours which were commissioned to illustrate this book were painted by the distinguished botanical artist Elisabeth Dowle. They took four years to complete as each fruit and blossom was painted from life. The varieties are shown both as they grow on the tree, and as they can appear when fully ripe."

Editors: Irene Slade and Margot Richardson. Designer: David Fordham. Line drawing of apple by Philip Hood.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-298) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has dust jacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Morgan, Joan, 1940- Book of apples.

ISBN:

0091777593 (cloth) :

9780091777593

OCLC:

29846322