Historical or Scholarly Works and Facsimiles--

Cruikshank, G. George Cruikshank's Table-Book... new edition. London: Bell and Daldy, 1869, frontispiece and 12 plates and other illustrations, original pictorial cloth, head and foot of spine bumped--[Fortnum & Mason]. A Commentary... containing notes on Good-eating and other pleasant matters... London: Spottiswoode et al., 1924-1929, 20 issues, numerous illustrations, original wrappers, collector's folding box--Simon, A.L. The Art of Good Living. London: Constable, 1929, number 7 of 300 copies, presentation copy inscribed by the author, original vellum-backed boards, bumped at extremities--Ibid. A Dictionary of Gastronomy. London: Wine and Food Society, [1949], presentation copy inscribed by the author, original boards, dust-jacket, dust-jacket frayed with some loss and marks--together with 53 others including volumes by J. Evelyn, Lady Culham (facsimile manuscript cookery book) and Mrs Beeton (facsimile of first edition) (76)

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We are happy to provide an indicative listing of individual books in this lot as a general guide to our clients, but the listing may not be exhaustive. Please note that the sale is subject to our conditions of business which cover the lot description as provided in the printed catalogue, and it is the catalogue lot description that governs the sale not the additional listing.

Escoffier, A. A Guide to Modern Cookery... new impression... (Heinemann, 1939)
[Anon]. A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns... (The Society of Antiquaries, 1790)
Prochaska, Alice and Frank ed. Margaretta Acworth's Georgian Cookery Book (Pavilion, 1987)
Allen, Brigid ed. Food: An Oxford Anthology (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Tannahill, Reay. Food in History (Penguin, 1988), original wrappers
Hampson, John. The English at Table (William Collins, 1944)
Brown, Lynda. The Georgian Theatre Cook Book (The Georgian Theatre, n.d.), original wrappers
McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking, the Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Unwin, 1988), original wrappers
Black, Maggie. Georgian Meals and Menus (Kingsmead, 1977)
Price, Rebecca. The Compleat Cook (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974)
Wheatley, Dennis. 1749-1949, The Seven Ages of Justerini's (Riddle Books, n.d.)
Berriedale-Johnson, Michelle. The British Museum Cookbook (British Museum Publications, 1987)
Kelly, Ian. Cooking for Kings, the Life of Antonin Carême (Short Books, 2003)
Sexton, Regina. A Little History of Irish Food (Kyle Cathie, 1998)
Brillat-Savarin. The Physiology of Taste (Dover Publications, 1960)
[Anon]. Old English Coffee Houses (The Rodale Press, 1954)
Beeton, Isabella. The Book of Household Management (Jonathan Cape, 1977)
Bickel, Walter ed. Hering's Dictionary of Classical and Modern Cookery (Fachbuchverlag, 1972)
Spain, Nancy. Mrs. Beeton and Her Husband (Collins, 1948)
Macdonell, Anne ed. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened... newly edited... (Philip Lee Warner, 1910)
Plat, Hugh. Delightes for Ladies (Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1948)
Appleby, Andrew B. Famine in Tudor and Stuart England (Liverpool University Press, 1978)
Walton, Alan Hull. Love Recipes Old and New (Torchstream, 1956)
Steele, Robert. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Chatto and Windus, 1907)
Baron Heath ed. Expences of Dinners Provided for Cardinal Wolsey and the Lords of the Privy Council from 13 July 1518 to 13 February 1519 [no publisher, n.d.], original wrappers
[Anon]. The John Rylands Facsimiles, No.3 "A litil Boke for the Pestilence" (Manchester University Press, 1910)
Dawson, Thomas. The Good Housewife's Jewel (Southover Press, 1996)
Meighn, Moira. Country Contentments, Courtesies and Customs (The Medici Society, 1929)
Edwards, John. The Roman Cookery Apicius (Hartley & Marks, 1984)
Davenport, John. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs ([no publisher], 1869)
[Anon]. Songs, Madrigals, and Sonnets (Longman, Brown, Green and Co. 1849)
[Anon]. A Manuscripy Cookery Book in Several Hands (Hardwick House and Hawsted Place, n.d.)
Saintsbury, George. A Second Scrap Book (Macmillan, 1923)
Arnold, Walter. The Life and Death of the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks (Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 1871)
Squire, John. Cheddar Gorge (Collins, 1937)
Squire, John. Cheddar Gorge (Collins, 1937)
James, Philip ed. A Butler's Recipes Book 1719 (Cambridge University Press, 1935)
Lowinsky, Ruth. Lovely Food, a Cookery Notebook (The Nonesuch Press, 1931)
Walker, Thomas. The Art of Dining (Grant Richards and Philip Sainsbury, 1928)
Tannahill, Reay. The Fine Art of Food (The Folio Society, 1968)
Soyer, Alexis. The Pantropheon (Paddington Press, 1977)
Shelagh and Jonathan Routh ed. Leonardo's Kitchen Note Books (Collins, 1987)
Black, Maggie. Food and Cooking in Medieval Britain, History and Recipes (English Heritage, 1985), original wrappers
Black, Maggie. The Medieval Cookbook (The British Museum Press, 2002), original wrappers
Driver, Christopher and Michelle Berriedale-Johnson. Peppy's at Table (Unwin Hyman, 1986)
Napier, Mrs. Alexander ed. A Noble Book Off Cookery ffor a Prynce Houssolde or eny other Estately Houssolde (Elliot Stock, 1882)
Evelyn. Acetaria... facsimile (Prospect, 1982)
Fuller, John. Carving Trifles, William King's Imitation of Horace (The British Academy, 1976)
Warner, Richard. Antiquitates Culinariae... facsimile... (Prospect, n.d.)
Tannahill, Reay. The Fine Art of Food (The Folio Society, 1968)
Power, Eileen ed. The Goodman of Paris (The Folio Society, 1992)
Wright, Thomas. A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages (Chapman and Hall, 1862)
Papin, Denys. A New Digester or Engine for Softening Bones... facsimile... (Mallinckrodt Collection of Food Classics, 1966), original wrappers
Simon, André L. ed. A Dictionary of Gastronomy (The Wine and Food Society, [1949])
Cruikshank, George. George Cruikshank's Table-Book... new edition... (Bell and Daldy, 1869)
[Fortnum & Mason]. A Commentry... containing Notes on Good-eating and other pleasant matters... (Spottiswoode et al., 1924-1929), 20 issues, original wrappers, collector's folding box
Simon, André L. The Art of Good Living (Constable and Co. 1929)