Quarto. x, [2], 288pp, xi-xlii, [4]. With colour plates and numerous black and white photographs and illustrations in the text. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, pictorial dustwrapper. Very minor shelf-wear, dustwrapper marked and chipped, short tears to upper panel. With a loosely inserted 2pp publisher's prospectus, and a typed letter on publisher's stationery stating this to be a complimentary copy provided at the request of the editor.

The first edition in English of a comprehensive manual on the preparation of sweet and savoury Swiss desserts and pastries, comprised of the principal part of 'a new Swiss manual of the baking and confectionery craft prepared for bakers, pastrycooks, confectioners and restauranteurs'.