Antiquitates Culinariae; or Curious Tracts relating to the Culinary affairs of the Old English. With a preliminary discourse, Notes and Illustrations, By the Reverend Richard Warner, of Sway, near Lymington, Hants.
London: Prospect Books, 1981. Quarto, [2] lx, 137, [1 blank] pages. Illustrated with two images, "A Saxon Entertainment", and "The Peacock Feast" (the later double-paged). Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. Number 129 of 400 numbered copies. FACSIMILE; originally published 1791. This work was one of the first to examine the history of early English cookery, at the forefront of a scholarly movement that developed over the last.....