Author: HOLLIS, Elsa Olga.
Title: Mistress and Mädchen: A Comprehensive German and English Domestic Phrase-Book with Simple Recipes in Both Languages.
Description: London, For R[ichard] Cobden-Sanderson by Shenval Press, 1937. Third impression. First edition May 1937, this reprint November. Small 8vo. original cellophane dust-wrapper, cloth-backed paper-covered boards, distinct Shenval Press typography in red and black. 128 pp. In very good condition. Clean and tight. Cellophane wrapper a little torn. Interesting social document published in the wake of refugees arriving from Germany and Austria seeking work. As a work published by printer and designer R Cobden-Sanderson and Shenval Press, important trade printers, it suggests an intriguing back story. See Olga Kerziouk (2016) British Library blog and AJR Journal February 2013.

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