Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Editions of Epulario: 1
The Bonhams auction brochure stated "this edition not in Bitting or Vicaire, only one copy on WorldCat". These two, I found from consulting the British Library catalogue[1] compiled gastronomic bibliographies.
Georges Vicaire was a nineteenth century bookman who
André Simon, the co-founder of the Food & Wine Society wrote in the 1954 English edition of Vicaire's magnum opus that it took him
many years of painstaking research to discover in the great public libraries and private collections some two thousand five hundred books dealing with the fascinating subject of gastronomy in all its different aspects ... they are presented with the most meticulous bibliographical details, and many of them with very interesting and valuable notes by Vicaire himself.
To be completed
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