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[003902] [Menon; Louis Francois Henri de Menon] The French Family Cook: Being a Complete System of French Cookery. Adapted to the Tables Not Only of the Opulent, But of Persons of Moderate Fortune and Condition. London: J. Bell, 1793. First Edition. 8vo. Full Calf. Good. [9], iv-xviii, xvii-xviii, xix-xxiv, [1], 2-342pp, [2]. Full calf, original covers, later rebacked in lighter calf, smooth spine divided into six panels by blind rules, modern leather label to second panel, date to foot

Corners bumped and worn with loss to leather, new endpapers. Title with closed tear and water stained, text lightly browned and often lightly stained throughout, but never too obtrusive

The first English edition of Menon’s influential La Cuisinière Bourgeoise

Bitting, page 554; Cagle 872; Maclean, page 101; Oxford pages 121-122; Simon BG 714; Wellcome IV:112 (in a note about the fourth edition). Four locations in ESTC in the UK, with ten in the US and one other