(Food History) De Salis, Mrs. Harriet Anne. The Art of Cookery Past and Present: A Treatise on Ancient Cookery, with Anecdotes of Noted Cooks and Gourmets, Ancient Foods, Menus, etc. Nuts 1"x2" closed tear to front

1"x2" closed tear to front jacket panel

Warmly inscribed & SIGNED by Wynants (with a drawing by him) on half-title

Railroad Pudding

" Partridge with cabbage

An interesting and informative cookbook for German families published just before the Second World War

(Food History) De Salis, Mrs. Harriet Anne. The Art of Cookery Past and Present: A Treatise on Ancient Cookery, with Anecdotes of Noted Cooks and Gourmets, Ancient Foods, Menus, etc. Nuts 1"x2" closed tear to frontArt Nouveau dec. cloth. First Edition. London: Hutchinson, 1898. A survey of Greek, Roman, and golden age French gourmands. De Salis (1829 1908) was a popular writer of Victorian era cookery and household management, and even wrote a history of kissing (!). Rubbing to spine ends, else very good charming. (8)