Quennell, Nancy, ed. The Epicure's Anthology of Banqueting Delights.

With an essay on the Epicure and the Epicurean by A.J.A. Symons. Illus. with drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Jacket. Second Impression. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.

An anthology of gastronomic writings by numerous men of letters, including Proust, Thomas Walker, Boswell, Thackeray, Brillat-Savarin, Keats, Boccaccio, Trollope, Alexis Soyer, et al. With a surprise female appearance by Mrs. Leyel on herbs. Subjects covered are all hunger-inducing: oysters, truffles, foie gras, Russian banquets, a picnic at Westminster Abbey, dinner at the Rothschild's,. a Chinese dinner, etc. Mild darkening to jacket, with a couple closed tears to jacket extremities, else very good.

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