BRILLAT-SAVARIN. Physiology of taste or Meditations of transcendental gastronomy. Paris, Charpentier, 1853. In-12, midnight blue half-chagrin, spine decorated with cold stamping (period binding).
xi and 525 pp, (1) f.
This very complete edition also contains : Balzac, Traité des excitants modernes - Anecdotes et fragments d'histoire culinaire - Pensées et préceptes - Recettes et formules, par un cordon bleu - La Gastronomie, poem by Berchoux - L'Art de dîner en ville, poem by Colnet.
Ex-libris and handwritten signature René de Proyart. Ex-dono "to Paul Bigle".
Some foxing. Joints rubbed.
Vicar, 119.
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