| British Library: | Humanities 2739.f.5 |
| British Library: | H.L.R. 641.016 |
| Curwen Press: | N2 |
| British Library: | Humanities 2739.f.5 |
| British Library: | H.L.R. 641.016 |
| Curwen Press: | N2 |
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BIBLIOTHECA GASTRONOMICA A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS ON GASTRONOMY COMPILED AND ANNOTATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDRÉ L. SIMON President of the Wine and Food Society THE PRODUCTION, TAXATION DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION OF FOOD AND DRINK THEIR USE AND ABUSE IN ALL TIMES AND AMONG ALL PEOPLES [block: knife, fork & spoon, crossed, wreathed with corn and grapes] LONDON: THE WINE AND FOOD SOCIETY 1953
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THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO 750 COPIES This is Number [space for serial number]
[1-26]4 [27]2; [27] tipped in, not sewn.
[12] 1-2 [3] 4-8 [9] 10-20 [21] 22 [23] 24-30 [31] 32-72 [73] 74-142 [143] 144-6 [147] 148 [149] 150-4 [155-6] 157-96 [+4].
Crown 4o: 9¾" × 7¼", trimmed, top edge gilt, artificial head and tail bands, white wove, no mark; 14(+2)pt. Bembo, 11(+1)pt. Bembo, 9(+1)pt. Bembo; line block illustrations; casing, red buckram, gold-blocked up spine: [within ruled border divided into two, first panel]: ‘ANDRE L. SIMON ’ [2nd panel] ‘BIBLIOTHECA GASTRONOMICA’; printed dust-jacket.
One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.
Not in Curwen library; outside scope of 1963 handlist; added at suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour Ac1.
Curwen Works note stated quantity 750.
BL copy at Humanities 2739.f.5 is numbered 326.
2/Feb/1953
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 11/Sep/2007
