L'ECOLE PARFAITE DES OFFICIERS DE BOUCHE, Contenant Le Vray Maistre-d'Hostel, Le Grand Ecuyer-Tranchant, Le Sommelier Royal, Le Confiturier Royal, Le Cuisinier Royal, et le Pastissier Royal. ANONYMOUS.

FOURTH EDITION 1682. Quatrieme Edition, corrigee & augmentee. FRENCH TEXT. 12mo, approximately 155 x 90 mm, 6 x 3½ inches, 42 woodcut text illustrations, pages: [8], 1-480, [28], bound in full full vellum, 3 bookplates of well known cookery book collectors to first pastedown: Westbury Collection, Elizabeth David and John Hodgkin. Binding soiled with wear to upper joint and foot of spine, still firmly bound, no loose pages, old ink lettering and date to spine mostly rubbed off, pale foxing to title page, pale age-browning throughout, minor worming to lower outer corners of pages 165-190, and 385-396, not affecting text, (the worming confirms this as the Westbury copy, lot 332, sold by Sotheby's in 1965), 3 leaves slightly ragged at lower margins, not affecting text, occasional tiny nick to outer margins, otherwise a good copy. See: Sotheby & Co, Catalogue of the Westbury Collection of Cookery Books, 1965, page 67, No. 332; Gerard Oberl, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, page 72, No. 88; G. Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique, column 339; William Gagle, A Matter of Taste, A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink, page 136, No.180; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 547; Sotheby & Co., Catalogue of Books on Food and Wine from The Library of Harry Schraemli, 1971, page 96, No. 323. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.