Eugène Briffault / Bertall - Paris a table - 1846

Superb illustrated edition of this book, at once gastronomic, literary, satirical and documentary, offering a broad portrait of Paris through its way of eating, drinking, entertaining, and living around the table -

The author turns gastronomy into a genuine observatory of Parisian society and describes meals, restaurants, cafés, caterers, markets, food shops and pleasure venues as many spaces where the different social classes, professions and temperaments of the capital meet -

Paris thus appears as a city whose daily life is deeply organized around food, from family and bourgeois meals to grand banquets, worldly suppers and the practices of fashionable establishments -

Eugène Briffault / Bertall - Paris at table - 1846 - J. Hetzel -
[6], iv, 184, [2]pp

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its original half-basane binding, marbled boards, binding under the protection of a cellophane, slight signs of wear, some minor defects on the cover, peppered edges, smooth spine adorned with gold fillets, gilded lettering, label with title and date handwritten on the back -

Good interior condition, slightly yellowed paper, beautiful vignette on the title page, work enriched with fine engravings in black in text and out of text including a frontispiece by Bertall, marbled endpapers in good condition, fine copy -

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