Antiquitate 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: Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1791. Quarto, [2] lx, 137, [1 blank] pages. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with two aquatints, 'A Saxon Entertainment", and "The Peacock Feast" (the later double-paged). Engraved title page. Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. 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 three centuries.....