Les Contenances de la Table.
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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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First edition in English. Full facsimile of the c.1503 French edition printed in Lyons by Pierre Mareschal and Barnabé Chaussard, accompanied by translation and introduction by Timothy Tomasik. 8vo., original half morocco, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Sebastopol & London, Ben Kinmont & Bernard Quaritch. Printed letterpress in an edition of 100 copies. Twenty large-paper on Zwerkall mouldmade and eighty on Mohawk Superfine. This number 28/80. Printed at the shop of Patrick Reagh, Sebastopol and bound at Ateliers Laurenchet, Paris. "Le Contenances de la table is one of the most precious of all early children's books. Important in both the history of etiquette and gastronomy, it places the reader in the position of the child in Renaissance France, having to listen to the 'dos and don'ts' of life around the table. [.] The current edition is the first English edition of Les Contenances de la table. Our purpose in issuing it is to make the text more accessible to scholars and collectors. Although there are two nineteenth-century reprints, one issued by the Roxburghe Club (1816, published in thirty-eight copies) and another by A. Pilinski (1860, published in twenty copies), both are extremely difficult to find." (Ben Kinmont, Preface.) With a bibliography and census of known editions of the work.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Les Contenances de la Table.
- Author
- TOMASIK (Timothy J.), translator & introduction, & KINMONT (Ben) publisher.
- Publication year
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.
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