A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd & Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man & Beast.
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1961. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with a previous owner name on the flyleaf in a Near Fine bright price clipped dust jacket. A Cordiall Water collects a charming mixed bag of nostrums, elixirs, restoratives, and fortifiers and intersperces them with autobiographical anecdotes from M. F. K. Fisher’s life in California, Provence, Mexico and Switzerland. These engaging recipes, "a perfect combination of superstition, instinct, and primitive knowledge" deal with commonplace ailments—sore throats, cures for cats, aging skin, fevers, PMS and hangovers. Ingredients of these extraordinary receipts are transformed into cures and preventatives told in the inimitable style of this master of the finely observed life. 178 pages. Item #28961
Price: $150.00