The Royal Cookery Book - Jules Gouffé
Part of the culinary canon. This very rare, and very beautiful ‘new’ [ha!] edition, with its extraordinary illustrations is one of the greatest and most important cookbooks of all time. This (the English version of Jules’ Le Livre de Cuisine) was translated by Jules’ brother Alphonse, who was Queen Victoria’s pastry chef. This is no way near as inaccessible as you might imagine for a book this old and full of amazing things still very familiar to us today (plus mad shit like Potted Ortolans too obvs hahahahah).
Publisher/Published: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883
Condition: BB. Bearing in mind this is 140 years old it’s in amazing nick as you can see. Bit of foxing etc as to be expected.
Part of the culinary canon. This very rare, and very beautiful ‘new’ [ha!] edition, with its extraordinary illustrations is one of the greatest and most important cookbooks of all time. This (the English version of Jules’ Le Livre de Cuisine) was translated by Jules’ brother Alphonse, who was Queen Victoria’s pastry chef. This is no way near as inaccessible as you might imagine for a book this old and full of amazing things still very familiar to us today (plus mad shit like Potted Ortolans too obvs hahahahah).
Publisher/Published: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883
Condition: BB. Bearing in mind this is 140 years old it’s in amazing nick as you can see. Bit of foxing etc as to be expected.
Part of the culinary canon. This very rare, and very beautiful ‘new’ [ha!] edition, with its extraordinary illustrations is one of the greatest and most important cookbooks of all time. This (the English version of Jules’ Le Livre de Cuisine) was translated by Jules’ brother Alphonse, who was Queen Victoria’s pastry chef. This is no way near as inaccessible as you might imagine for a book this old and full of amazing things still very familiar to us today (plus mad shit like Potted Ortolans too obvs hahahahah).
Publisher/Published: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883
Condition: BB. Bearing in mind this is 140 years old it’s in amazing nick as you can see. Bit of foxing etc as to be expected.
