Warner

1981 · 4950 — London: Prospect Books 1981. Quarto 2 lx 137 1 blank pages. One of 400 numbered copies. Facsimile of the original 1791 edition. Illustrated with two images "A Saxon Entertainment" and "The Peacock Feast" the later double-paged. 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 of the Eighteenth Century. The book contains: Warner's detailed introductory notes; The Forme of Cury copied from an ancient vellum roll thought to have been compiled about 1390 by the master cooks of Richard II; "Ancient Cookery A.D. 1381" another collection of recipes from the same vellum roll; Ancient Cookery a collection of recipes from a fifteenth century manuscript but which almost certainly dates from a much earlier period; Ancient Recipes to Preserve Fruits" from the mid-Seventeenth Century; and account of the enthronment feasts of George Neville as Archbishop of York in the reign of King Edward IV and of William Warham of Archbishop of Canterbury in 1504. A few light pencil notes to the margins and a bit of light foxing throughout. One quarter brown calf. Near very good. Prospect Books hardcover books