RIVERS, Miss Mabel Irwin   

EpicureDir 1899 cites Miss Mabel I. Rivers as a teacher of cookery with First-Class, Plain, Diploma, No. 1,258, October 1895, and First-Class, High-Class, Diploma, No. 1,310, July 1896, from the National Training School. She held the post of Teacher of Cookery at Portman Chapel Girl's School and her address is given as 10 Hervey Road, Blackheath.% @The revised entry in EpicureDir 1909 records her full name, Miss Mabel Irwin Rivers, and adds further qualifications: Second Dressmaking and Advanced Physiology, and First Elementary Hygiene. Her position is now Staff Teacher at the National Training School of Cookery and her address, 39 Althorp Road, Wandsworth Common.% @Miss Rivers edited "McDougall's cookery book" which went through several editions in the 1920s.

• Puddings proved and approved
• 950.1 Puddings | proved & approved | by | Mabel I. Rivers | (Staff Teacher at the National Training School of | Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, S. W.)
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1909
  17.5 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-viii], 1-84, [i-iii]   [1s on binding]   Blue cloth
  GB:   *Priv coll   LB destroyed   LCS   LoEN   OB  
  US:   DLC   NN  
  

  The nine chapters cover "Steamed and boiled puddings", "Baked puddings", "Milk puddings", "Miscellaneous hot sweets", "Pastry and tartlets", "Simple cold sweets", "Fancy cold sweets", "Jellies" and "Sweet sauces".

• 950.2 — Puddings | proved & approved | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training School | of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.) | Second edition. | Enlarged and revised, with a special chapter on | ices
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1921
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-viii], [1] 2-86, [i] publ ad   [1s 3d on binding]   Blue paper
  GB:   *LoEN   OB  
  

  On the title-page there is no opening parenthesis preceding "late" to match the closing parenthesis following "S.W."

• 950.3 — Puddings | proved & approved | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training | School of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Rd., S.W. | Third edition | with a special chapter on ices
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1927
  18.0 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-viii], [1] 2-85, [i] publ ad   [1s 3d on binding]   Green paper
  GB:   *OPo(F)  
  

• 950.4 — [Another edition, fourth, 1935]
  US:   CU-A  
  

  NUCat records a fourth edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1935, pages 71.

• Tips for tea
• 951.1 Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | Staff Teacher at the National Training School of Cookery, | Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. | 1/- net.
  London: Secretarial Bureau; 1907
  18.5 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-75 [76], [i-iii] ads   1s   Orange cloth
  GB:   *LB  
  

  There are twelve chapters: "Bread, plain and fancy", "Scones", "Buns", "Biscuits", "Cakes, un-iced", "Cakes, iced", "Small cakes, un-iced", "Small cakes, iced", "Fillings for layer cakes", "Icings", "Sandwiches" and "Miscellaneous". The recipes are unnumbered.% @The fourth edition contains a preface to the first edition which is dated 1906, probably incorrectly. I have found no earlier edition than that described here which bears the date 1907 on the title-page and which has an undated preface.

• 951.2 — [Another edition, second, 1909]
  

  The fourth edition contains a preface to the second edition dated 1909.

• 951.3 — Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training School | of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. | Third edition, enlarged and revised. | 1/- net.
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1915
  18.5 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-x], [1] 2-77, [i-v] ads   1s   Red cloth
  GB:   *Priv coll   LB  
  US:   DLC  
  

  There are 192 numbered recipes.

• 951.4 — Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training School | of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. | Fourth edition, enlarged and revised. | 1/3 net.
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1922
  18.5 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-viii], [1-2] 3-90, [i] publ ad   1s 3d   Red paper
  GB:   LB destroyed   *LoEN   OB  
  

  This edition has 200 numbered recipes.

• 951.5 — Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training School | of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. | Fifth edition, enlarged and revised. | 1/3 net.
  London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co Ltd, and The Secretarial Bureau; 1924
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-vi], [1-2] 3-86   1s 3d   Red paper
  GB:   *OPo(F)  
  

• 951.6 — Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training School | of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W. | Sixth edition, enlarged and revised | 1/3 net
  London: Simpkin, Marshall Ltd; 1930
  18.5 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-vi], [1-2] 3-86   1s 3d   Red paper
  GB:   *Priv coll  
  

  There are now 201 numbered recipes.

• 951.7 — Tips for tea | by | Mabel I. Rivers | late Head Teacher at the National Training | School of Cookery, Buckingham Palace Road, | London, S.W. | Seventh edition | enlarged and revised | 1/3 net
  London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd; 1936
  18.5 x 12.0 cm   Pp [iii] iv-viii, [1-2] 3-86   1s 3d   Red paper
  GB:   *OPo(F)  
  US:   CU-A