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Creator:
Simmons, Owen, author
Title(s):

The book of bread / by Owen Simmons, F.C.S. (Owen and Owen).

Edition:
Edition de luxe.
Published/Created:
London : Maclaren & Sons, [approximately 1903]
Edinburgh : Printed by Turnbull & Spears
Physical Description:
360 pages, [22] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TX769 .S56 1903+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr.
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Pages 322-360 include the index, advertising matter, and a list of subscribers to the 'edition de luxe'.
Includes index.
"The loaves are now produced photographically correct, of exactly full size, and the colours are as nearly perfect as it is possible for them to be by any process at present known."--Page 12.
Illustrations comprise 12 chromolithographed plates, 8 tipped-in photographic plates, 2 tipped-in original silver gelatin photographic prints (one with a vertical crease at inside edge), and 6 further images within the text.
BAC: British Art Center copy is bound in publisher's original green cloth.
Subject Terms:
Baked products.
Bread -- Microbiology.
Bread.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1903.
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
Lithographs -- 1903.
Subscriber's list.
Advertisements.
Contributors:
Maclaren & Sons, publisher.
Turnbull & Spears, printer.
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