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BUSK, HANS, THE BANQUET: IN THREE CANTOS, 1819
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title, viii, 144 pp. FIRST EDITION. Rare. Founded on the French "Gastronomia" of Berchoux, being a witty poem on "the antiquity, utility, and vitality of the science of eating, as well as its anteriority and superiority to all other arts and sciences whatsoever" (Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, pp. 146-7.)
Condition: disbound, lacking frontispiece, browned
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