Alexis A. Soyer
The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery
London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1847 . Cloth. The third edition of Alexis Soyer's impressively detailed culinary guide to providing sustenance to wealthy Victorian households. The third edition of this work, which was first published a year prior.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, eight further plates, and a folding menu. Collated, complete.A fascinating and impressively detailed cookery work from a celebrated French chef. Written primarily for grander households with large kitchen staff, this volume also included content for those with more modest budgets.With a former owner's inscription, dated 1908, to the recto of the frontispiece.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.Soyer was a French chef, philanthropist, writer and inventor who made his reputation in Victorian England. Rebacked, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with back strip laid down and boards restored. Endpapers renewed. Fading to back strip, and perimeters of rear board, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to recto of front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Foxing to frontispiece. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd handling mark. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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