Publisher's binding in half red shagreen with red percaline boards. Spine with false raised bands decorated with 4 large compartmented fleurons in blind. Percaline of both boards of volume 1 warped in places. Interior stitching of volume 1 loose, showing daylight between the 2 boards. Some foxing in volume 2. One yellow dampstain p.119 in volume 2, and p. 328 to 334, heavy yellow foxing.
Bookplate stamp Jules Dupont.
All of French culinary art in a great treatise on gastronomy. This major work is considered one of the most important of French cuisine and it is a perfect mirror of cooking as it was practiced in great restaurants and prestigious establishments. Numerous menus illustrate the culinary customs of the 19th century, far removed from our frugality.