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CLASSICS OF THE TABLE (Les) for the use of practitioners and people of the world. Beautiful volume of 550 pages. Paris, Au dépôt, rue Thérèse, 1844. In-8, green half cloth (Late 19th century binding). False title, title, iv pp, (1) f., xxii pp, (2) ff, 609 pp. Second edition (the first appeared in 1843). Edition not reported by Vicaire. This collection of famous gastronomic texts contains : La Physiologie du goût by Brillat-Savrin, La gastronomie by Berchoux, L'Art de dîner en ville by Colnet, La gastronomie historique by the Marquis de Cussy... The edition is illustrated with numerous vignettes in the text by Isabey, Johannot, Vernet, Pauquet, Daubigny..., and 24 plates out of text bound in fine (including portraits of Vernet, Brillat-Savarin, Appert, Janin, Grimod de La Reynière, etc). There were several editions of this work, each with a different number of plates. Pages 311 to 314 contain passages sometimes considered too free; this original text is well preserved here. Some foxing. Spine rubbed, faded. Vicaire, 176; Oberlé, Fastes, 211 (1850).
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CLASSICS OF THE TABLE (Les) for the use of practitioners and people of the world. Beautiful volume of 550 pages. Paris, Au dépôt, rue Thérèse, 1844. In-8, green half cloth (Late 19th century binding). False title, title, iv pp, (1) f., xxii pp, (2) ff, 609 pp. Second edition (the first appeared in 1843). Edition not reported by Vicaire. This collection of famous gastronomic texts contains : La Physiologie du goût by Brillat-Savrin, La gastronomie by Berchoux, L'Art de dîner en ville by Colnet, La gastronomie historique by the Marquis de Cussy... The edition is illustrated with numerous vignettes in the text by Isabey, Johannot, Vernet, Pauquet, Daubigny..., and 24 plates out of text bound in fine (including portraits of Vernet, Brillat-Savarin, Appert, Janin, Grimod de La Reynière, etc). There were several editions of this work, each with a different number of plates. Pages 311 to 314 contain passages sometimes considered too free; this original text is well preserved here. Some foxing. Spine rubbed, faded. Vicaire, 176; Oberlé, Fastes, 211 (1850).
