Rose, Giles (fl. 1664-1681)
Rare first edition in English of a book of instructions for servants in great houses, with contemporary female ownership ‘ Mary Denne given me by my Father 1685’, and recent famous ownership. The work examines the various roles involved in the feeding of a large household and the putting-on of grand entertainments. It includes a chapter on the decorative folding of napkins, providing instructions for 26 designs.
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12mo, (146 x 78 mm). 12 ff., 561 pp. [pp. 49-73 bound out of order, pp. 385-408 bound between pp. 480-481, including several full-page woodcuts. Modern brown calf, faux raised bands to spine, lettering piece, boards ruled in blind. Light foxing and staining to a few quires, worm-holing occasionally affecting text, thumbing to margins, edge-wear to some leaves, contemporary inscription to first leaves. An attractive example of an often used cookbook.
Originally published in French in 1662 (Escole parfait des officiers de Bouches), this is the rare first translation into English, as Bitting notes, p.407: ‘The translation is much scarcer than the original’.
The book comes from the collection of acclaimed French restauranteur and chef Albert Henri Roux (1935-2021), owner of the first restaurant in the U.K. to be awarded a Michelin star, and the first awarded a second and then a third.
Provenance: Mary Denne (inscription dated 1685 recording gift from her father); Albert Roux, his bookplate on front pastedown.
ESTC R30134.
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