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We believe this is the only edition ever signed
by M.F.K. Fisher.
Larger view of broadside
The Essential Ingredient
by M.F.K. Fisher

Signed by M.F.K. Fisher
Calligraphy by Pamela Gardella
Designed and printed by Judyl Mudfoot


15" x 22"   Rives BFK, Gutenberg Laid, and Mohawk Superfine

​From the broadside:

“The first advice is from the Journal kept by
a London apothecary, in Shakespeare's time. The
second is from a handbill thrust at me in Aix-en-
Provence in about 1970, by a tall man dressed in
rough thick clothes.

It was night. Down the side street from which he
darted now and then with his bunch of flimsy broad-
sides I could hear the quavering of a dismal hymn.
It sounded strange in the dark, sung perhaps by five
or six ancient women, and its Weyleyan measures were
doubly foreign in that Catholic town where Campra
had been born and where schoolboys whistled phrases
from the Jerusalem Psalter as unconsciously as they
did from the latest rock-and-roll. But the handbill
was no more strange to me than the other old recipe
for both spoke of incantation, and mystery, and age-
less faith: the essentials of healing”
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