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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Gastronomy; Or, the School for Good Living: A Literary and Historical Essay on the European Kitchen, Beginning with Cadmus the Cook and King, and Conc.

Paperback / softback. New. The art of the chef and the appreciation of good food have been with us since time immemorial, as this volume delightfully demonstrates through its colourful account of the history of European gastronomy. First published in 1814, the work ran to a second edition in 1822, which is reissued here.

London: printed by J. Gillet for H. Colburn; sold also by G. Goldie, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1814.. FIRST EDITION 1814, 12mo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, pages: [3], 4-24, [25]-232, a printer's error numbering page 20, 24, the jump in pagination is the same in all copies, nothing is missing, bound in the original publisher's drab boards, modern printed paper label to spine, gatherings untrimmed and trimmed. Boards slightly worn at corners, armorial bookplate of William Middleton of Crowfield Hall Suffolk on front pastedown, front endpaper partly cracked, endpapers and title page slightly foxed and slightly spotted, pronounced horizontal wrinkle to last few pages, otherwise a very good clean tight copy. The work is a history of the pleasures of dining and drinking from classical times to the 18th century, dwelling particularly on France and then England but also reviewing customs in Russia, Italy and Germany. He names many writers on cookery throughout the period covered.… Read More