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CASSELL'S. 4 Volumes in mint condition: As new.
HOUSEHOLD GUIDE.
EVERY DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL LIFE: BEING A Complete Encyclopaedia OF DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL ECONOMY. (single thin line) NEW AND REVISED EDITION. (single thin line) Vol 1. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON. PARIS & MELBOURNE. (single thin line) (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
C irca 1875. 4 x 4to. 260 x 200 mm. Every volume same title page. VOL.1. 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 380. 1fep. VOL.2. 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 380. 1fep. VOL.3 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 364. 1fep. VOL.4 1fep. [1] A coloured chromolithograph plate as frontis. Title page. [1] 2p Index. (1)2 - 374. 375 - 380 Useful Tables. (1)i - xxviii General Index. 1fep. A books hardcovered bound in brown cloth with ornate embossed tooling and design in blue and gilt on front covers and spines. The 4 volumes are numbered on the spines. A fantastic set.
- These fine Cassell company produced books are very hard to get any precise bibliographical information about. What is clear, is the many guides to household management that were published during the Victorian period 'Cassell's Household Guide' is both typical of this genre and one of the most comprehensive and best. Each of the four volumes contains a series of essays on various topics, tasks and areas of concern and help for the household. Not only for the wife but also the husband. The general index at the end of the fourth volume covers all the other three volumes. Detailed articles vary in length but the breadth of information brought to each subject is amazing, A comprehensive look at Victorian middle-class life, from making aquariums to pie recipes, as well as all aspects of food preparation. The guide is well organised across the four volumes. Containing eight coloured plates and accompanied by monochrome vignette illustrations throughout, providing any homeowner with all the knowledge they might want or need. When you see the clamour for copies of Mrs Beeton's Household Management, then compare this copy of Cassell's production, one can only comprehend this extremely fine set is very underrated.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11279

Ritz. Cesar A very interesting Article.
How to Conduct a Great Hotel.
From the London Magazine. Page 1 has a black and white picture of Cesar Ritz. (but underneath is a spelling mistake, and the heading for the article proclaims it's Carl Ritz). There are five more black and white pictures in-text.
n/d. Circa 1900-1902. 233 x 162mm. 6p. p249 - 254. A slight border tear on P1 not affecting Text. Very lightly age-browned at edges. Overall nice and clean. Housed in a brown marbled folder with label.
- Cesar Ritz the great pioneer of the new style contemporary Hotels-de-luxe, friend and collaborator of the equally famous Chef, Auguste Escoffier in many of their famous hotel openings. This article has a lot of invaluable advice on precisely the management and control of the daily operation of a large luxurious Hotel. One of the pictures is of the Carlton Hotel, Pall Mall, London is its Kitchen. The largest in London. Also the domain of Escoffier, Maitre Chef de Cuisine from 1899 - 1919. We are informed by Ritz that the astronomical annual consumption at the Carlton was; Meat 400,000 lbs. Chickens 25,000. Ducks, Geese and Turkeys 4,000. Pigeons 3,000. Quails 24,000. Ortolans 2,000. Grouse, Partridges and Pheasants 13,000. Dover Soles 42,000 lbs. Other Fish 30,000 lbs. Hams and Bacon 47,000 lbs. Lard 6000 lbs. Butter 47,000 lbs. Eggs 380,000. The amount of wine consumed, in bottles during the same period staggers: Sherry, Madeira and Port 2,700. Hock 6,000. Moselle 9,000. Bordeaux 16,000. Burgundy 5,000. Champagne 55,000. Brandies, Whiskies and Liquers 15,000. A total of 108,700 bottles or nearly 300 bottles daily. It goes on to itemise and number all the other pieces of stock needed to capitalise a large London Hotel. A notable article by the great and famous Hotelier. Cesar was the undoubted star of the hotel industry, and was managing up to ten hotels at the zenith of his accomplishments. Shortly after that he began to suffer from breakdowns and depression. In 1902 his illness forced him to pass over his business to his wife Marie-Louise Ritz. She carried on her husband's hotel empire as first hotel manageress in the world. Caesar Ritz retreated to his beloved home village Niederwald, in Central Switzerland, for the last 16 years. He died in a clinic on the 25th October 1918.

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Modern category

ref number: 11262

CERVIO. VINCENZO - The original rare treatise on carving.
IL TRINCIANTE.
D M. VINCENZO CERVIO, AMPLIATO, ET RIDOTTO A PERFETTIONE DAL CAVALLIER REALE FVSORITTO NARNI, Trinciante dell’Illust [with small MO above]. & Reur [with small MO above]. Signor Cardinal Farnese CO’ PRIVILEGII. [Illustrated Printer woodcut device in homage to Sybille. Surrounded on 3 sides by--] QVAL PIV FERMO – E IL MIO FOGLIO – EL MIO PRESAGIO. IN VENETIA Appresso gli Heredi di Francesco Tramezini. M D LXXXI.
FIRST EDITION 1581. 3 feps. Title page very slightly age browned with 3 small ink spots not detracting. [1] 1p ALL ILLVSTRISS. 2p Ai Lettori. 1p TAVOLI. 1-44[1] 3 feps. 3 plates of carving knifes & forks, fowls ready for carving with parts labeled, and a three times folded long plate of knifes and forks. The main text in italic type. Bound in quarter dark brown calf with marbled boards and red morocco and gilt label. The whole text-block very clean. Overall in fine condition.
- Vincenzo Cervio (ca. 1510-1580) was for most of his life an officer in the household of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and was also a famous carver. Il Trinciante, (translated; The Carver), is his posthumous book that was edited by Cavalier Reale and includes a separate section by Reale. It is stated online the book is the forerunner to all other books and manuals on carving. This is not true. It is preceded by the first treatise on the Italian art of carving by Giovanni Francesco Colle and his work; Refugio del Povero Gentilhuomo. Colle was the trinciante to the Court of Ferrara. His treatise was published in 1520 and dedicated to Duke Alfonso d’Este. Cervio's work tho' is said to be superior to all the essays of his predecessors including Domenico Romo, who wrote The Singolare Doctrine, pub: Venice 1560. This rare first edition of Cervio's Il Trinciante of 1581 is published in the original Italian, and details the carving and serving of meat, fish, fruit, shellfish and fowl. It includes no fewer than 74 chapters and promotes the Italian method of carving, where one holds the food up in the air with a fork and carves it in this posture, transforming the operation into a spectacular performance for the diners to admire. The treatise, moreover, provides "much information about the foods eaten at an Italian court of that period" (Davidson). The chapter on household matters concludes with a short piece on the carving tools designed by Fusoritto da Narni, author of at least a portion of the work. These are depicted in detail on the folding plate. Fusoritto da Narni was, in this period, trinciante to Cardinal Alessandro Mont’al- to whose uncle Felice Peretti (Sixtus V) was pope from 1585-90. It is probable that the elaborate banquets described are ones in which Narni officiated. A 2nd edition was printed in Rome in 1593 by Giulio Burchioni and in the same year the 2nd was reprinted again in Venice by Giovanni Varisco. It was also published in early seventeenth century and was often bound together with later editions of Bartolomeo Scappi’s ‘Opera’. This book is a glimpse of the elite of Italian Renaissance society and the skills of the carver as one of the important functions of their dinners and banquets. BMC STC Italian, p 166. USTC 821713 - 7 copies. Vicaire, col. 159; Westbury, pp. 45-46; 1 x 1581 & 2 x 1593. The 1st edition not in Bitting. Horn-Arndt; cf. Davidson, The Oxford companion to food, p. 156. Cagle 2 copies 1581 & 1593. Mags Cat.# 645 one copy of 1591. Mosimann has a 1st plus 2 others.

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11221

Latry Francoise A very rare Savoy menu by Chef Francois Latry.
INDEPENDENCE DAY DINNER MENU.
Of the American Society in London. July 4th, 1927. (a thin line) MENU, PROGRAMME, LIST OF GUESTS, AND PLAN OF TABLES (another thin line) The American Ambassador ......... Chairman. SAVOY HOTEL. Headed by a slightly embossed vignette of the American flag.
123 x 164 mm. An 18 page very detailed menu. Verso of front cover is a cartoon with drawings of all the upper management. We seee that Chef Latry is Maitre des Cuisines of the Savoy Restuarant and Chef Virlogeux was the Maitre des Cuisines of the Savoy Grill. With the Menu and Toasts, seating plan and the names of all invitee's, this is one of the most comprehensively detailed menus I have ever seen. On the verso of the back cover is a fine-drawn portrait of Mons.Latry. The whole menu in thick cream-coloured cardboard. Held together with a red, white and blue twisted string tassle. Housed in a slip folder bound in thick yellow handmade paper with a large label. A very clean and handsome item.
- This is an unusual menu, not only the pages of details but that it also has the tipped in cartoons of the Catering and Hotel Managers. At 'Cook's Info' online, there is a fine biographical article, detailing the key points of Francois Latry's life, pertaining to his career as a famous French Chef in London. Born in Gex. France in 1889 He was Maître Chef des Cuisines at the Savoy Hotel Restaurant in London for 23 years, from 1919 to 1942. His life has not yet been well-documented but what we know of him comes just from newspaper coverage of the time. Fortunately, he was somewhat similar to Alexis Soyer, being frequently in the media and the press, as well as a writer of letters to the editor of the Times of London. François’s mother began to teach him to cook when he was very young. He was only seven when he started doing little things in the kitchen under her direction. At 12 years old, he went off to work in a hotel in Bourgen-Bresse, whence the best French poultry comes. Then he went to Lyons for ten years before he migrated to Paris to get his apprenticeship finished off, but not the learning. Something a great cook does all his life. Latry started with the Savoy in London in 1911 when he was approximately 22 years old. Two years later he was chef of its Café Parisien, which he left to go to Claridge’s for five years, a service interrupted by a year at the front, where his leg was so badly injured that he was discharged as unfit for further service. After the Armistice, he returned to the Savoy as Maître Chef des Cuisines. On 31 May 1928, he was named to the Board of Directors of the “Société des Grands Hôtels de la route Paris-Nice” in France. His position at the time was given as “directeur des cuisines du Savoy-Hotel” with his home address curiously given out as 132 Cromwell Road, South Kensingston, London. Also in 1934, he was admitted to the French Legion of Honour: The first being Auguste Escoffier similarly admitted on March 22nd 1928. Latry retired in March of 1942. Marius Dutrey, c.1888 – 1975, was appointed his successor.” Latry died in August 1966 in France. Marius Dutrey stayed until January 1946. In January 1946, Camille Payard was awarded the post, but occupied it only shortly as he died in October of that same year. August Laplanche, was then Maître Chef des Cuisines from 1946 to 1965. A well documented history of the Kitchen of am equally documented grand old hotel that has managed to keep its excellent reputation since its inception by Richard D’Oyly Carte in August 1889.

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Ephemera category

ref number: 11273

Pant. Pushpesh
INDIA COOKBOOK
Written by: PUSHPESH PANT. THE ONLY COOKBOOK ON INDIAN FOOD YOU'LL EVER NEED. PRODUCE OF INDIA. 1000 RECIPES. REAP #:1-0-06-205. WWW.PHAIDON.COM
FIRST EDITION 2010. 4to. 277x185mm. Pastedown and endpaper with a lovely 'welcome' illustration (see image #2 below). [1] Half-title with an illustration of the sun and rays. Title page is a copy of the colourfully illustrated front cover. 2p Contents. (3)9-27 Introduction starting with map of india and portrait of the author, P.Pant. 2p Photograph of spice merchant. (1)31-793. 2 p Illustration for Directory 796-797. 2 p Illustration for Index 800-815. 1p Author's acknowledgements. [1] Illustrated end-paper and paste-down. Fully bound in white hard cardboard covers with an illustration of the sun and rays and bordered in typical Indian colours. The text block is richly illustrated with many two-page colour illustrations in the famous style of hand-painted Indian film posters. With numerous full page photographs of authentic Indian dishes. All the numerous chapters in multi-coloured paper. The book comes in a typical cream coloured Indian cloth bag with the same illustration as the book cover. A nice unusual touch. Pristine condition, as new.
- This beautiful book oozes India with a very Indian feel and style to it (you can almost smell the simmering spices!). It has been very well thought out with many innovative ideas to the layout. As someone who has been working and cooking in India for over 40 years, this book strikes me as one of the best so far. The author, Pushpesh Pant (a tongue twister for any westerner) was born in 1946 in Nainital, northern India, and is a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. A regular recipe columnist, author of many cookbooks and host of a very good TV series, he has spent two decades collecting authentic family recipes from all over the country. They have been carefully edited, tested and collated to produce a remarkable collection documenting the rich diversity of Indian cuisine. When one first comes across this book, the unusual way it is presented in the cloth bag (see image #1 below) grabs one's attention immediately and that focus doesn't waver as one peruses the whole volume. This book may well gain and sustain a well deserved, long lasting reputation.

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Modern category

ref number: 11171

Pant. Pushpesh - signed by P. Pant.
INDIA COOKBOOK
Written by: PUSHPESH PANT. THE ONLY COOKBOOK ON INDIAN FOOD YOU'LL EVER NEED. PRODUCE OF INDIA. 1000 RECIPES. REAP #:1-0-06-205. WWW.PHAIDON.COM
FIRST EDITION 2010. 4to. 277x185mm. Pastedown and endpaper with a lovely 'welcome' illustration (see image #2 below). [1] Half-title with an illustration of the sun and rays and signed in orange ink -- "For. Robert Hendry Happy Cooking with warm regards Pushpesh Pant. Title page is a copy of the colourfully illustrated front cover. 2p Contents. (3)9-27 Introduction starting with map of india and portrait of the author, P.Pant. 2p Photograph of spice merchant. (1)31-793. 2 p Illustration for Directory 796-797. 2 p Illustration for Index 800-815. 1p Author's acknowledgements. [1] Illustrated end-paper and paste-down. Fully bound in white hard cardboard covers with an illustration of the sun and rays and bordered in typical Indian colours. The text block is richly illustrated with many two-page colour illustrations in the famous style of hand-painted Indian film posters. With numerous full page photographs of authentic Indian dishes. All the numerous chapters in multi-coloured paper. The book comes in a typical cream coloured Indian cloth bag with the same illustration as the book cover. A nice unusual touch. Pristine condition, as new.
- The author, Pushpesh Pant was born in 1946 in Nainital, northern India, and is a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. A regular recipe columnist and author of many cookbooks, he has spent two decades collecting authentic family recipes from all over the country. He is extremely knowledgeable about the huge diversity of regional Indian cuisines and very passionate when communicating his knowledge. His very popular TV series: Jiggs Kalra's Daawat, conveys the historical origins and diversity of Indian regional cuisines. This fine book fills in some of the recipes missing from the series. Very scarce with the author's signature.

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Modern category

ref number: 11183

David. Elizabeth - A signed copy, with a signed letter to her editor
Italian Food
ITALIAN FOOD by ELIZABETH DAVID Drawings by Renato Guttuso. MACDONALD : LONDON.
FIRST EDITION. 1954. With a clean DJ. Signed on the fep by E.D.-- "To John, with love Elizabeth September 24' 1954" 1p Half Title. Frontispiece and Title Page. vii-viii Acknowledgments. ix Contents. [1] 11-313. 314-315 Bibliography - 'Some Italian Cookbooks'. [1] 317-335 Index. [1] 1fep. Also enclosed is a 2 page letter in E.D's handwriting, dated the same day - 24th. from her home 24 Halsey St SW3. To "Dear John" The pages are slightly browned at the edges. Also enclosed is a woodcut illustration of Melon, Salami and Proscuitto by Renato Guttoso. It is the same illustration that is on page 48, preceding the chapter on 'Antipasti e Insalate' There are many illustrations throughout the book. A very clean copy of the very scarce 1st edition. A very rare item especially with the topical letter and the Guttoso illustration.
- The signature in the book and on the letter are both dated on the same day and addressed to John; John Lehman her publisher. The letter states "Dear John Italian Food comes out today (just about three years since we signed the contract) I am glad to see it out at last, but also very sorrowful that it is not your production. I hope that you wont feel that I have taken you[r] name in vain in acknowledging my debt to you, and it occurs to me now that perhaps I should have asked you first, and if I have committed a breach of etiquette, please forgive me. I was anxious to put in record some word of tribute to the fact that without your encouragement I don't believe I could have carried it out, but whether or not the book has any success, I would like it not to be a discredit to you. With Love Elizabeth." During the writing of 'Italian Food' John Lehman's ailing publishing firm ground to a halt. In spite of being one of the most entrepreneurial and prestigious contemporary publishing names, Lehman was making a loss, and the printers Purnell told him they couldn't subsidize him any longer. Macdonald, the final publisher of 'Italian Food' was a financially successful firm under the Parnell aegis. Macdonald was offered Lehman's list of authors by Purnell, but agreed to take only two, one of whom was E.D. Elizabeth was furious, but could do nothing to extract herself from what she felt were Macdonald's clutches. Elizabeth acknowledges her debt to John Lehman in the 'Acknowledgments' at the beginning of 'Italian Food'- Hence the rather touching and pertinent letter.

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Modern category

ref number: 10997

David. Elizabeth
Italian Food
ELIZABETH DAVID BARRIE & JENKINS LONDON.
3rd Edition. 1987. Large 4to. Light grey paste-down and endpapers. Half-title. [1] Title page. [1] 1p Contents. On the verso, a re-print of Kitchen scenes from Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera. 7-16 Introduction by E.D. p16 Acknowledgements. On verso; A painting of a Kitchen. 19-224. 225-239(1) Index. Light grey paste-down and endpapers. Light grey cloth binding with silver writing on the spine and very slight fading to edges. D/J slightly rubbed at top and bottom of the spine. Internally very clean. As new.
- A very scarce edition. This is a revised reprint of the the 1954 first edition of Italian Food. In the introduction by E.D. in this copy, she states that "this 1987 edition differs from its predecessors chiefly in that revisions made over many years in the form of footnotes to recipes have now been incorporated into the main body of the text". Printed 5 years before her death, this book is not commonly known to have been published and to be directly attributable to E.D. Very scarce.

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Modern category

ref number: 11126

David Elizabeth - Signed limited edition.
Italian Food
THIS SPECIAL EDITION OF ITALIAN FOOD HAS BEEN LIMITED TO 400 COPIES AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ELIZABETH DAVID, OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NUMBER 168/400. ELIZABETH DAVID (And also her full signature, undelined) WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CPC (UNITED KINGDOM) LTD., FOOD INGREDIENTS DIVISION CHRISTMAS 1988. BARRIE & JENKINS LONDON.
SPECIAL EDITION. Large 4to. Light grey paste-down and endpapers. Half-title. [1] Title page. [1] Second title page. [1] 1pp Contents. On the verso, a re-print of Kitchen scenes from Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera. 7-16 Introduction. p16 Acknowledgments. On verso; A painting of a Kitchen. 19-224. 225-239 [1] Index. Light grey paste-down and endpapers. Light grey cloth binding with silver writing on the spine. D/J as new. Internally very clean. As new.
- A very handsome book commissioned by CPC UK Ltd. for Xmas 1988. With many coloured illustrations and wonderful reprints of paintings of numerous kitchen scenes. This glossy production definitely has the E.D. stamp. It has many interesting recipes and fulsome information on all things gastronomically Italian and Italian products. A signed copy of a limited edition of 400 only, published four years before her death. Probably one of the least known and very scarce Elizabeth David's publishing collaborations.

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Modern category

ref number: 11179

ANON. - Two instruction manuals, one old and rare; one modern.
ITEM 1. NAPKIN FOLDING: ITEM 2. THE BEAUTY OF THE FOLD.
ITEM 1. Series of Fully Illustrated Original Designs. Printed by Newton and Eskell. 1891. Full-page diagrams throughout with facing letterpress description with forty-nine designs including: The True-Lovers' Knot; The Cockle-Shell; The Lady Betty Balfour; The Turkey-Cock Tail; The Spill-Box; The Four-Pointed Fan; The Duplex Vase; and The Opera Glasses. ITEM 2. THE BEAUTY OF THE FOLD. A Conversation with Joan Sallas. Edited by Charlotte Birnhaum. Sternberg Press. ON THE TABLE SERIES.
ITEM 1. SOLE EDITION. 4to. Inside cover advertisements for Newton & Eskell publications. (1)List of designs. Verso Advert for Alfred Suzanne's Egg Cookery. No title page (not-proven, if one is called for). (1)Napkin Folding. 6-103. Each verso with explanation of Napkin shapes. Opposite page with each Napkin diagram. Last 3 pages + inside cover: Advertisements for Newton & Eskell publications. Covers are very lightly dusted. A very small damp stain to the top of the covers. Very light staining to the last two pages. Back cover advert for 'The Caterer and Hotel-keeper.' Publisher's cloth-backed printed boards. Spine re-backed with dark green cloth spine. Overall a very nice item. ITEM 2. FIRST EDITION. 2012. 183 x 113mm. 2feps (one with publisher's details. Title page. 1p Contents. [1] 7-9 Forward. On the verso; 2 b/w photographs of a huge feature from a 1677 folding manual. 11-27. [1] 2nd Title page. 30-86. The b/w photographs of folding techniques. [1] Verso with Advertisements. 1fep. Hard cardboard cream covers with decoration and text in maroon. Condition as new.
- ITEM 1. Napkin folding is most commonly encountered (but less often nowadays) as an elaborate table decoration in fancy restaurants. Although the modern trend is for clean, unstarched, simply folded white cloths, that have had the minimum of handling, giving a sense of good conscious health and safety awareness. It is now becoming quite rare to see the elaborate folded fantasies of the past. Typically, and for best results, a clean, pressed, well-starched square cloth (linen or cotton) napkin was used. There were many variations in napkin folding in which a rectangular napkin, or a napkin ring, a glass, or even multiple napkins may have been used. The earliest instruction manual for the artistic folding of napkins was published in 1639 by Matthia Gieger, a German meat carver working in Padua. It was part of a series of treatises on the culinary arts titled 'Le Tre Trattati'. Napkin folding has a centuries-old history and dates back to the times of Louis XIV of France (1638 – 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi-Soleil). He was the monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1643 until his death. The shift of the napkin from simply a folded cloth to a folded creative object occurred in 16th century Florence, Italy around the same time as voluminous clothing, such as ballooned sleeves, had become fashionable among the wealthy. Rather than simply laying a tablecloth flat on a table, starched linens were folded into large centre-pieces, called "triumphs," that could depict a variety of real and mythical animals, natural elements and architectural forms. (See item 1098 on this book-site, titled, 'Roger, Earl of Castlemaine's Embassy' by Michael Wright to get a sense of the amazing "triumphs" made from sculpted sugar pastilliage). A popular gift wedding guests received during this time was a personally folded napkin that distinguished whether they were related to the bride or groom. In the mid-18th century, table setting practices were so specific that in Germany there were particular traditions on how to fold napkins, display figures at the table and arrange plate. During this golden age of napkin folding, there was a school in Nuremberg devoted entirely to this art and butlers had shelves of instructional books to keep up with the changes in the field. Napkin folding in the form of table sculptures began being replaced by porcelain decorations during the 18th century. When I was in the Catering school in the early 1960's we students used to enjoy learning new shapes of folded napkin fantasies. Another age another time. ITEM 2. Features German master Joan Sallas, whose folded napkins graced the Metropolitan Museum's exhibit of 1780 Viennese royal table silver. (Watch him fold a ''water lily'' napkin on YouTube.) A virtuoso of the fold, has meticulously researched and mastered the history and techniques of the art of the fold. With the banquet table as a setting, his expertise and philosophy pour forth in the form of splendid, folded linen. In this precious book, Sallas shares his folding wisdom, which editor Charlotte Birnbaum contextualizes in two essays on the history of napkin folding. The texts are accompanied by an illustrated catalogue of folding techniques. A fascinating little book and a good accompaniment

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Antiquarian category

ref number: 11293