xxxii, 864 pp. Illus. with wood engravings, incl. portrait of the author and his contemporaries. 8.5x5", period half black morocco & marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine. Paris: Lacam, [c.1892].
Containing 2200 pastry, ice cream & liqueurs, decorated with engravings of pastry-making and utensils in the text. With anecdotes and biographies of the great French gastronomic authors, and with engraved portraits of them: Marquis de Cussy, Antonin Carême, Grimod de la Reynière, Jules Gouffé and an autograph letter of Antonin Carême 1832. An important 19th c. work on French pastry. Rubbing to extremities, else very good.
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