| Curwen Press: | G3 |
| Curwen Press: | G3 |
[A]4r
[within a 22pt. border of flowers and rules] LES VINS DE BOURGOGNE [flower] THE WINES OF BURGUNDY [rule] COMPILED BY EUGENE HERBODEAU FOR THE HABITUÉS OF 'A L'ECU DE FRANCE' [rule] [block: French royal coat of arms] LONDON 111 JERMYN STREET, S.W.1 PHONE: WHITEHALL 2837 1945
[A]4v
[A]4 B-D4; conjugate pair tipped in after D4.
[10] 1-11 [12] 13-22.
Demy 8o:trimmed, 8½"×5¼", white wove, no mark ; 12(+1)pt. Ehrhardt; wrappers, light blue (?bourbon) wove paper wrappers, attached by turn-ins to outermost leaves, and printed up spine: ‘LES VINS DE BOURGOGNE — THE WINES OF BURGUNDY’, and on upper wrapper: ‘[in 2-rule frame 3½" × 2½"] LES VINS DE BOURGOGNE [armorial block as on t.p.] THE WINES OF BURGUNDY’.
Not deposited at B.L.
Herbodeau, a protegé of Auguste Escoffier, was his literary executor; he worked under Escoffier at the Carlton Hotel, which was destroyed by German bombs early in 1940; ephemera and menus from Escoffier and Herbodeau are very scarce.
Robin Phillips, 1963