COLLINGWOOD (F.) and J. WOOLAMS. The Universal... Lot 324

COLLINGWOOD (F.) and J. WOOLAMS. The Universal English Cook, or The Nec plus ultra of Gluttony. (...) Translated from the 4th edition, and decorated with 14 plates. Paris, Henri Tardieu, 1810. 2 vol. in-8, half red morocco with corners, spine with nerves, title and tomato parts in burgundy, speckled edges (Modern binding). I) Double portrait-frontispiece engraved by Canu, x and 284 pp. - II) Frontispiece engraved by Canu, (2) ff. 284 pp. (publisher's catalog), 12 numbered plates. The original English edition of this famous work dates from 1797 (according to Oxford) or 1792 (according to Mrs Pennell, reported by Bitting). The fourth edition from which this translation was given was published in 1806. The 12 plates illustrate, by month, the plans of the first and second services; the 13th, placed in the frontispiece of volume II, illustrates the ways of cutting. Manuscript bookplate of the time on the false title: de Mouillemuse de Ravenel. Volume I, frontispiece mounted. Volume II, angular spotting to the plates. - Some foxing. Spines faded. Vicaire, 189 - Bitting, 95.