Antiquitates Culinariae, or Curious Tracts Relating to the Culinary Affairs of the Old English

Warner, Rev. Richard (ed.)

Verlag: R. Blamire, London, 1791

Beschreibung

Neatly rebound in Leather backed cloth. Some discoloration to title and frontis, scattered foxing and browning, tiny tear in margin of feast plate & some browning at edges, but otherwise quite clean internally. lx, 137pp. Cagle 1049, Bitting 485, Vicaire 873, Simon 1607. Two aquatints, one of two pages of a peacock feast (that is reputed to have been removed for copyright concerns, but is nearly always present). Includes the famous ca. 1390 manuscript cookery known as Forme of Cury (so named by Samuel Pegge when he first published it in 1780) which was compiled by the cooks of King Richard II, a similar manuscript cookbook called her Ancient Cookery A.D. 1381 a third which Warner reprints from "A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the government of the Royal Household" which was published the year prior, a short collection of recipes for the preservation of fruit, and two inthronizations which include detailed lists of provisions and menus and are from 1465 and 1504. Size: 4to (quarto). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000514. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CAT000514

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Antiquitates Culinariae, or Curious Tracts ...

Verlag: R. Blamire, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1791

Einband: Hardcover (Quarter Leather)

Zustand: Good Condition

Auflage: First Edition.