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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. 3. Paperback. Used:Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Octavo, xv, 380 pages. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. An important cookbook by "one of the most famous early nineteenth century Paris restaurateurs. ...Beauvilliers stands as the first and most easily recognized example of a restaurateur as a democratization of what had once been an aristocratic privilege." (Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant). André Simon called this book, "at the time of its publication easily the best and most reliable both in French and in English." (Bibliotheca Gastronomica). The author's famous restaurant, originally eponymous, and later the Grandes Taverne des Londres, closed the year after this English edition was published. Internally with a bit of light foxing and a few light pencil check marks. Three quarters of an inch of corner of free front endpaper torn away. Publisher's advertisement glued to front pastedown, and with the bookseller's ticket of Merridew in Warwick. In original blue paper-covered boards over brown… Read More