"Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook" 1937 BEATON, Cecil Slippers Edward King (19th/20th century)

Edward King (19th/20th century)

Maria Luisa Lobo

Timothy Shaw traces Escoffier's career from the early miseries of apprenticeship to being made chef de cuisine and finally becoming an international celebrity

Although on the surface a hilarious joke

"Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook" 1937 BEATON, Cecil Slippers Edward King (19th/20th century)BEATON, Cecil [135] pp. B. T. Batsford 1937 11 1 2" x 9 1 2" Cecil Beaton's second book with the scarce dust jacket. 'On the shelves at Ashcombe, I have now over fifty diaries & scrapbooks, memorials of many violated magazines, repositories of museum picture postcards, theatrical programmes, letters, photographs & pictorial miscellanea which have accumulated since childhood. Christian Brard suggested to me that a similar scrapbook might be distilled