Soyer, Alexis.

The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery, with nearly two thousand practical receipts suited to the income of all classes. Illustrated with numerous engravings and correct and minute plans how kitchens of every siz.

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1850.

Thick octavo, 720 + 10 + 30 pages. Seventh edition of this massive work by the culinary innovator who brought us cooking with gas and the soup kitchen among many things. A near fine copy, in publisher’s gilt and blind stamped brown boards. With the bookplates of Sir Cloudesley Shovell and Lucille Fillin.