The Art of French Cookery.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Octavo, xv, 380 pages. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. An important cookbook by "one of the most famous early nineteenth century Paris restaurateurs. ...Beauvilliers stands as the first and most easily recognized example of a restaurateur as a democratization of what had once been an aristocratic privilege." (Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant). André Simon called this book, "at the time of its.....