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DUMAS père Alexandre (1802-1870)
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DUMAS père Alexandre (1802-1870)
- Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1873. Fort in-4 (27 x 18,5 cm), untrimmed, covers and spine (dated 1872) preserved, bound in white vellum, painted on the upper cover, smooth spine with gilt title and emblem (E. Carayon).
First edition on large paper, precious copy of Arthur
MEYER decorated with two paintings by Albert ROBIDA, and full of documents.
One of the 50 copies on Hollande paper (n° 17), the only one printed on large paper after 5 Chine and a parchment printing.
Monumental homage to gastronomy, and Dumas' last work, decorated with 2 etched portraits by Rajon (Dumas and the cook Denis-Joseph Vuillemot. The novelist was known by his entourage for his gigantic appetite and his real talents as a cook. In addition to the famous Dictionary, the book contains a reprint of Grimod de La Reynière's gastronomic calendar, various menus composed according to the seasons or the number of covers by Dugléré of the Café Anglais, Verdier of the Maison Dorée,
Magny, Vuillemot of the Tête Noire, Brébant, the Maison Potel et Chabot, and in the appendices, a few advertisements for the goldsmith Christofle, the pork butcher Franquelin, the canned food company Daudens...., and a long study on Bornibus mustard.
Painted binding by Albert ROBIDA, representing Dumas dressed as a musketeer and cooking (slight pitting on the binding).
The copy is stuffed with: 26 engravings and vignettes cut on the theme of gastronomy by Daumier and Henry Monnier| a
L.A.S. from Alexandre DUMAS father inviting his "dear child" to come hunting with him: "tu tireais 100 coups de fusil" (1 p. in-8 with his figure)| a full-page watercolour by Albert ROBIDA, signed and dedicated to Arthur Meyer, representing at the top Henri IV and a pretty lady putting the chicken in the pot, and at the bottom a revolutionary wearing the Phrygian cap and reading the menu of the Gargote Jeune France (Gigot de Bourgeois, Épaule de Curé, Filet de Religieuse, Rable d'officier,
Discours Jaurès, Manifeste C.G.T.)| 2 states of the engraved frontispiece and 20 plates by Robida of Brillat-Savarin's Aphorismes (A. Blaizot, [1905]).
Sent by Arthur Meyer (with his business card) to his friend the banker Horace Finaly: ""The real Amphytrion /
Is the Amphitryon where we dine." To our true Monday Amphitryon /
All the wishes of a grateful stomach Artur Meyer Christmas 1292."
PROVENANCE Arthur MEYER (his bookplate| and his motto with a gilt rooster on the spine of the binding), given by him to Horace FINALY.
- Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1873. Fort in-4 (27 x 18,5 cm), untrimmed, covers and spine (dated 1872) preserved, bound in white vellum, painted on the upper cover, smooth spine with gilt title and emblem (E. Carayon).
First edition on large paper, precious copy of Arthur
MEYER decorated with two paintings by Albert ROBIDA, and full of documents.
One of the 50 copies on Hollande paper (n° 17), the only one printed on large paper after 5 Chine and a parchment printing.
Monumental homage to gastronomy, and Dumas' last work, decorated with 2 etched portraits by Rajon (Dumas and the cook Denis-Joseph Vuillemot. The novelist was known by his entourage for his gigantic appetite and his real talents as a cook. In addition to the famous Dictionary, the book contains a reprint of Grimod de La Reynière's gastronomic calendar, various menus composed according to the seasons or the number of covers by Dugléré of the Café Anglais, Verdier of the Maison Dorée,
Magny, Vuillemot of the Tête Noire, Brébant, the Maison Potel et Chabot, and in the appendices, a few advertisements for the goldsmith Christofle, the pork butcher Franquelin, the canned food company Daudens...., and a long study on Bornibus mustard.
Painted binding by Albert ROBIDA, representing Dumas dressed as a musketeer and cooking (slight pitting on the binding).
The copy is stuffed with: 26 engravings and vignettes cut on the theme of gastronomy by Daumier and Henry Monnier| a
L.A.S. from Alexandre DUMAS father inviting his "dear child" to come hunting with him: "tu tireais 100 coups de fusil" (1 p. in-8 with his figure)| a full-page watercolour by Albert ROBIDA, signed and dedicated to Arthur Meyer, representing at the top Henri IV and a pretty lady putting the chicken in the pot, and at the bottom a revolutionary wearing the Phrygian cap and reading the menu of the Gargote Jeune France (Gigot de Bourgeois, Épaule de Curé, Filet de Religieuse, Rable d'officier,
Discours Jaurès, Manifeste C.G.T.)| 2 states of the engraved frontispiece and 20 plates by Robida of Brillat-Savarin's Aphorismes (A. Blaizot, [1905]).
Sent by Arthur Meyer (with his business card) to his friend the banker Horace Finaly: ""The real Amphytrion /
Is the Amphitryon where we dine." To our true Monday Amphitryon /
All the wishes of a grateful stomach Artur Meyer Christmas 1292."
PROVENANCE Arthur MEYER (his bookplate| and his motto with a gilt rooster on the spine of the binding), given by him to Horace FINALY.