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Second Edition, large 12mo, revised, lvii, [i], 59-592, [8 of music],pp., engraved frontispiece (foxed) of marketing table and eight pages of music titled "Anacreontic Song" at end, recent quarter calf, marbled boards, leather label to spine, uncut. The convivial song concludes (con spirito) 'Let me while I live entwine the joys of friendship, love and wine'. Cagle 798; Bitting, p.262; Oxford, p.146.
First Edition, 16pp., disbound. This essay took the first prize of ?40, offered by the Midland Counties Anti-Malt Tax Association.
Second Edition, expanded and revised, 4to, 991pp., facsimiles throughout, orig. cloth, d.w. This second, expanded and revised edition adds hundreds of titles to the original edition of 1,261 works in the formidable collection left to the Lilly Library by Dr. John Gernon. This extensive work covers not only books on gastronomy but also the related fields of wine-making, hotel and food management, diet, and herb gardening.
xviii,972pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little torn. This classic bibliography of works on food, drink, cooking, kitchens, gourmets, gastronomes and everything that centres on the pleasures of eating and drinking, is a unique compilation, and the most important book of its kind.
First Edition, 4to, xiv, 403pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. A most complete and comprehensive reference work containing information on virtually every wine book ever published in English (there are over 3,200 entries).
First edition, 12mo, ix, 130pp., 1 folding table and 1 folding plate showing a vine and the equipment used for treating diseases, original printed wrappers, uncut, a very good copy. A rare little work - OCLC locates only the copy at the Biblioth?que Nationale.
First edition, xv, [1], 240pp., with half-title, orig. brown patterned cloth, lightly stained, spine repaired with minor tears and rubbing to extremities. Provenance: Ownership signature to front-free endpaper "Wm. Theakston, 1860." Gabler, G33930; Bitting, p. 391.
100pp., facsimiles, prices and buyers' names loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, 507 lots.
4to, 200pp., coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
First English edition, 12mo (194 x 110mm) xx, [4], 164, [2, explanation of the plate]pp., with half-title, engraved folding plate depicting instruments for corking bottles (lightly spotted), orig. boards, corners rubbed, later printed title label to spine, uncut. The first English edition, the French edition being published a year earlier, of the first book to deal with canned foods. Appert, a Parisian confectioner and manufacturer of cordials, invented the process for the conservation of food by heat in hermetically sealed containers?an invention which was to revolutionise catering technique up to the present day. Includes canning instructions for meat, vegetables and fruits. Bitting, p. 14; Oxford, p. 141; Simon, 135; Cagle, 545.
xviii, 971, [2]pp., orig. cloth, d.w. torn. The works are not merely listed, they also presented with the most meticulous bibliographical details and many of them with very interesting and valuable notes by Vicaire himself.
A new edition, 12mo, iv, [5]-26pp., disbound.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 125mm), viii, 632pp., inner hinges lightly shaken, orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt, small blemish to lower cover, uncut.
Second edition, 8vo (185 x 125mm), xx, 398pp., orig. plum cloth lettered in gilt, spine lightly faded otherwise a very nice copy.
Second edition, 8vo (185 x 125mm), viii, 110pp., frontis., portrait, orig. red cloth lettered in gilt.
8vo (165 x 105mm), vi, 184pp., rebound in later maroon cloth.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 120mm), viii, [2], 162pp., orig. blue cloth, a little stained, spine lettered in gilt.
New edition, [2], ii, 3, [1], xxiii, [1], 271, [1], 46pp., 'On distilling in general' has separate pagination, handsomely bound in half calf by Trevor Lloyd of Ludlow, marbled boards, five raised bands to spine with red morocco title label and tooled in gilt, a very nice copy. It was not until the publication of this new edition that the "Ingenious Foreigner", responsible for the 1770 and 1771 editions, revealed himself as "Mr. Borella, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in England." All three edition are rare with ESTC recording 7 copies of the first 1770 edition, 1 of the second edition of 1771, and 8 copies of this new and last edition. Maclean, pp. 10-11; Oxford, p. 102; Bitting, p. 49-50; Simon, 227; Cagle, 572.
Fourth edition, with large additions and improvements, 8vo, [4], 304pp., 2 copper-engraved plates, some light staining and toning, cont. calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Provenance: Early ink ownership signature at head of title "Peter Forbes, Schoolmaster, Longforgan, 1819." Maclean, p.55; Bitting, p.167; Cagle 689; Oxford, p.120; Vicaire 375.
Fifth edition, considerably enlarged, 8vo, 310, 22pp., with the 22pp., added chapter at the end entitled 'Men and Manners,' engraved frontis., slightly offset, name erased from title and repaired with archival paper, text lightly age-toned, orig. boards, rebacked with orig. printed spine label laid-down, uncut. Bitting, p.238.
First edition, 8vo, [2], xi, [1], 407, [1]pp., with additional engraved title page, engraved frontispiece and 5 further engraved plates illustrating carving, cont. half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Bitting, p.98; Cagle, 635; Oxford, p.167.
First edition, viii, 348pp., 8vo, with 2 plates after Cruikshank, marbled endpapers, cont. half calf, marbled boards, marbled edges, a nice copy. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Heber Marden. Bitting, p.237.
First edition, 8vo, vi, [2], 676pp., engraved frontispiece, a little browned and chipped to blank margins, 11 engraved plates (plate 4 with closed tear), some light staining, recent cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Oxford later editions, not in Bitting or Cagle.
New edition, 8vo, [6], [v]-xix, [1], 491, [1]pp., new endpapers, orig. green cloth, neatly rebacked, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, a nice copy. Bitting, p.262.
First edition, 8vo, 630, [2, adverts]pp., frontis., portrait, 10 engraved plates (the first torn with old repair), some light browning especially towards the end, cont. calf, corners rubbed. The title page continues: "With the respective branches of pastry and confectionary, the art of potting, pickling, preserving, &c., cookery for the sick, and for the poor; directions for carving... Also a collection of valuable family recipes,in dyeing, perfumery, &c. Instructions for brewing, making of British wines, distilling, managing the dairy, and gardening. And an appendix, containing general directions for servants relative to the cleaning of household furniture, floor-cloths, stoves, marble chimney-pieces, &c. forming in the whol a most complete family instructor." Maclean, p.92; Bitting, p297.