L' art du cuisinier
By: par A. Beauvilliers, ancien officier de Monsieur, comte de Provence, attaché aux extaordinaires des maisons royales, et actuellement restauranteur ...
Contributors: Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress); Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Pilet
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Cookery, French
Notes: NUC pre-1956 NB 0230020
Bitting, K.G.  Gastronomic bib., p. 31
BN IX, column 695
Vol. 1: xii, 388 p.; v. 2: [4], 376 p., [9] folded leaves of plates.
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.
LC copy signed "A Beauvilliers" on t.p. of v. 1.
LC copy bound in 1 v.