SEARLE, Townley.

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Strange Newes From China: A First Chinese Cookery Book. First edition, first impression, British issue, of this lively work - more comedic than factual - by W. Townley Searle, an eccentric humourist, curio dealer, and founder of the Gypsy and Folklore Club. He quickly fell out with the club's president, Augustus John, the acrimony eventually resulting in John smashing the windows at the club's rooms.Sets of the British sheets were issued with a different title page in the US by Dutton.

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