Tips for tea

By RIVERS, Miss Mabel Irwin

• 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