Here's a recent cookbook that's currently
free @ Kobo. Author lastname and publishing house name kind of match up, so it may be self-pub, but it's nicely formatted with pictures and chapter marks for each individual recipe.
Also, you may want to look at Project Gutenberg's
user-contributed cookbook shelf selection. Some of their stuff will be a bit dated, but some will still be solidly written basic cookery that perhaps goes into a bit more helpful detail than today's trend towards glossy themed recipe collections.