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Title

  • L'art du cuisinier

Names

  • Beauvilliers, A. B. (Antoine B.), 1754-1817.
  • Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress)
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez Pilet, Imprimeur-Libraire..., 1814.

Headings

  • -  Cooking, French

Notes

  • -  Half title to v. 1.: recto has "L'art du cuisinier", then a six-line quote cited from "Gastronomie, chant 1er", then "Tome premier". Bottom of half title has "Imprimerie de J.L. Chanson", then "rue et maison des Mathurins, No. 10." The verso of the half title has five-line text: "M'étant conformé aux ordonnances ... j'ai fait apposer, au timbre sec, les deux lettres initiales de mon nom à chaque exemplaire de cette édition."
  • -  First ed. is dated 1814; some copies have changed the "4" to "6" in manuscript for later issue. Cf. Bitting.
  • -  Vol. 1: xii, 388 p.; v. 2: [4], 376 p., [9] folded leaves of plates.
  • -  NUC pre-1956 NB 0230020
  • -  Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 31
  • -  BN IX, column 695
  • -  LC copy signed "A Beauvilliers" on t.p. of v. 1.
  • -  LC copy bound in 1 v.
  • -  LAC scc 2019-03-21 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • TX719 .B37
  • TX719 .B37 Copy 2 Variant: Includes 38 p. "Supplément a l'art du cuisinier" following p. 376 of v. 2. Printed date is changed from "4" to "6" in ms. Oval embossed stamp on t.p. of v.1 with the letters "A" and "B" overlaying each other. Signed "Ve Beauvilliers" on t.p. of v. 1. Variant half title of v. 1 has only "L'art du cuisinier" and "Tome premier" on recto; verso has only "Imprimerie de J.L. Chanson", then "rue et maison de Mathurins, No. 10." Bound in 2 v. with [3] folded leaves of plates in v. 1, 6 folded leaves of plates in v. 2.
  • TX719 .B37 Copy 3 Oval embossed stamp as in copy 2. Signed "A Beauvilliers" on t.p. of v. 1. Variant half title of v. 1 has "L'art du cuisinier", then a six-line quote cited from "Gastronomie, chant premier", followed by "Tome premier"; verso has five-line text: "M'étant conformé aux ordonnances ... j'ai fait apposer, au timbre sec, les deux lettres initiales de mon nom à chaque exemplaire de cette édition." Bound in 1 v. with [9] folded leaves of plates at end.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 07023590

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Beauvilliers, A. B, Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. L'art Du Cuisinier. A Paris: Chez Pilet, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1814. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/07023590/.

APA citation style:

Beauvilliers, A. B., Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy & Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. (1814) L'art Du Cuisinier. A Paris: Chez Pilet, Imprimeur-Libraire. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/07023590/.

MLA citation style:

Beauvilliers, A. B, Katherine Golden Bitting Collection On Gastronomy, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection. L'art Du Cuisinier. A Paris: Chez Pilet, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1814. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/07023590/>.