The French Family Cook: Being a Complete System of French Cookery. Adapted to the Tables Not Only of the Opulent, But of Persons of Moderate Fortune and Condition

[Menon; Louis Francois Henri de Menon]

Published by J. Bell, London, 1793

About this Item

[9], iv-xviii, xvii-xviii, xix-xxiv, [1], 2-342pp, [2]. Full calf, original covers, later rebacked, smooth spine divided into six panels by gilt single rules, modern leather label to second panel, date to foot. Spine slightly faded, corners bumped and worn with loss to leather, new endpapers. Lightly browned and foxed throughout, foxing occasionally heavier, but generally light. The first English edition of Menon's influential 'La Cuisinière Bourgeoise'. Bitting, page 554; Cagle 872; Maclean, page 101; Oxford pages 121-122; Simon BG 714; Wellcome IV:112 (in a note about the fourth edition). Four locations in ESTC in the UK, with ten in the US and one other Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 003758

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The French Family Cook: Being a Complete System of French Cookery. Adapted to the Tables Not Only of the Opulent, But of Persons of Moderate Fortune and Condition
• Publisher: J. Bell, London
• Publication Date: 1793
• Binding: Full Calf
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Eighteenth Century
  • Cookery