Auguste Escoffier - Le Guide Culinaire. Aide-mémoire de cuisine pratique - 1907

AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER
The Guide Culinaire. Practical cookbook reference
Paris, S.n., 1907

Folio-8vo (22 cm x 14.5 cm), XVI-1247 pp.
Olive half-leather, spine with 4 raised bands adorned with 4 gilded tools, author and title stamped in gold, linings and flyleaves of marbled paper.

Second edition, with a new introduction, of this guide written in collaboration with Philéas Gilbert and Émile Fetu.
It contains nearly 5,000 formulas.
At the end are various menu examples and a table (detached and torn at the margin with a small loss to the text).

Working copy.