Lot 346
Isham, Sir Charles - Vegetarianism and healthy eating
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The food that we live on. [Northampton: Mark & Bailey: Printed privately by the author, n.d.] 21.5x17cm, 32 lithographed pages many with illustrations and border designs hand-coloured by the author, green wrappers with upper cover lithographed and hand-coloured, with the pamphlet Twenty-four reasons for a vegetarian diet bound in; Another copy, 20.5x16.5cm, in boards with variant illustrations and an original illustration of a pig in a top hat loosely inserted; Another copy, second edition, to be sold on behalf of Northampton Orphanage, unusually bound in red morocco gilt; Another copy, 27.5x23.5cm, 20 lithographed pages, some hand-colouring by the author; 2 other larger incomplete copies (6)
Footnote
Note: Through the medium of rhyme, Isham warns the reader about the dangers of eating unhealithy and finally recommends a vegetarian diet.