The Great British Breakfast,
Jan Read and Maite Manjon

Michael Joseph, London, 1981. Hardback. Book Condition: Vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg-, light wear to the edges, price clipped. Spine ends bumped. First Edition. 128pp. ISBN 0718120043. 128pp Illustrated Hardback.

Somerset Maugham once said that "if you would eat well in England you must eat breakfast three times a day" and despite a lamentable tendency to make do with a cup of copy and little else, the British breakfast has its staunch devotees. The Great British Breakfast is the first book on the subject to appear for many years and tracing the history of breakfasting from medieval times to its eighteenth and nineteenth century hey-day with chapters on country house and hunting breakfasts, the spreads in railway restaurant cars and ocean liners.

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