Westbury-Hodgkin-David copy.- L'Ecole parfaite des officiers de bouche, contenant le Vray Maistre d'Hostel. Le Grand Ecuyer-Tranchant. Le Sommelier royal. Le Confiturier royal. Le Cuisinier royal et le Patissier royal, fourth edition, title with small woodcut ornament, full-page and smaller woodcut illustrations of table settings and carving of meat and fruit, woodcut head-and tail-pieces and decorative initials, occasional marginal worm traces, stained, some spotting, lightly browned, later plain boards, spine with a couple of chips, soiled and rubbed, [Notaker 625.7 (and cf. 625.6); Simon BG 599; Vicaire 339 (note); cf. Bitting p,547; Cagle 179-181; Livres en bouche 140; Oberlé Fastes 88 (third edition)], 12mo, Paris, Jean Ribou, 1682.

⁂ Rare re-issue of the fourth edition with an impeccable provenance. 'C'est sans doute l'ouvrage le plus complet sur la cuisine et l'art de la table sous Louis XIV' (Oberlé).

Provenance: Lord Westbury (sold Sotheby's, 16th February, 1965, lot 332 (buyer P. Murray Hill)); John Hodgkin (bibliographer and collector of cookery books); Elizabeth David (bookplates to front pastedown).