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Ambrose Heath. Good dishes from tinned food. London: Faber & Faber, 1943
"With the coming of Second World War, Faber and Faber, in common with other publishers, was faced with the conundrum of desperate paper shortages and a hugely reawakened national appetite for new books. Faber seems always to have somehow managed to secure paper -though not all of it of the first quality by any means- and in a way the new austerity necessary for jackets (plain paper, few if any colours) was perfectly attuned to Berthold Wolpe's approach to design (he had joined the company in 1941). Great things were achieved within an extremely limited palette, the exuberance of hand lettering and the confidence of typefaces such as Albertus, brilliantly handled (...) Splendid jackets were produced for titles occasioned by the times, such as Ambrose Heath's Good Dishes from Tinned Foods (1943)."
Joseph Connolly. Faber and Faber: eighty years of book cover design. London: Faber and Faber, 2009