Confectionery.- Carême (Antonin) The Royal Parisian pastrycook and confectioner, edited by John Porter, first edition in English, lithographed frontispiece and 8 plates of ornate cakes and jellies, all but 1 folding, lacking half-title, plate 3 outer margin trimmed just within border, folding plates with section of light browning, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, 20th century pale calf over contemporary marbled boards, spine in compartments and preserving original black and burgundy leather labels, boards scuffed, [Oxford p.168; Simon BG 284; cf. Vicaire 144 (first edition, 1815)], 8vo, F.J. Mason, 1834.

⁂ Scarce first edition in English of Le Pâtissier Royal Parisien, Paris, 1815.