The Book of Preserves (Le Livre De Conserves) Containing Instructions for Preserving Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit and for The Preparation of Terrines, Gallantines, Liqueurs, Syrups, Petit-Fours, &c.

GOUFFE Jules.

Published by London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street, 1871

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The first Englsih edition, translated from the French by Alphonse Gouffe, head pastrycook to Her Majesty The Queen. Octavo (23 x 15.5cm). pp. viii,333,[3]. With a frontispiece portrait of Gouffe & 34 further wood engravings on the letterpress. A small and light outer-margin stain to the frontis, otherwise a clean & fresh copy bound in modern quarter roan, gilt tooled, in imitation of the original publisher's cloth. Vg. [Bitting 195; Cagle 713].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Preserves (Le Livre De Conserves) Containing Instructions for Preserving Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit and for The Preparation of Terrines, Gallantines, Liqueurs, Syrups, Petit-Fours, &c.
• Publisher: London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street
• Publication Date: 1871