A catalan cookery book - A Collection of Impossible Recipes
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A Collection of Impossible Recipes
Author: Irving Davis
Publisher: Lucien Scheler
Place of printing: Paris
Year of publication: 1969
Product Condition:
Example consisting of unbound bifoli in excellent condition, contained in a paper dust jacket with titles on the front cover: slight yellowing, traces of dust and slightly browned lower edge with corrugation; tiny label on the front flap bearing the inscription: Il polifilo, Via Borgonuovo 3, Milan. The drypoint engravings are protected by sheets of tissue paper. The dust jacket is contained in a canvas-covered hardback with titles on the spine: traces of dust, browned spine with minimal brown spots, slightly faded but legible titles. The whole is contained in a silent canvas slipcase with traces of dust and foxing. On the colophon, pencil signatures by Lucien Scheler and Nicole. Enclosed editorial slip from the Il polifilo bookshop. English text.
Pages: 98,(6)
Format: In fourth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 28
Width: 22
Description
This book is first and foremost a testimony of friendship. The frontispiece bears a decidedly intriguing title: A Catalan cookery book A collection of Impossible Recipes by Irving Davis Printed at the expense of a friend. In fact, the bibliophile and gourmet incognito, Irving Davis, had compiled a collection of Catalan recipes during his life, which in his opinion were impossible to replicate outside their homeland. Upon his death, the gastronome Patience Gray, a great friend of Davis, took charge of publishing the manuscript, accompanied by a preface and explanatory notes. His bibliophile friend Lucien Scheler took care of the edition, with the contribution of the 11 original drypoints by Nicole Fenosa. And so here is this very refined cookbook, with recipes in English, with a dual English-Catalan title. Al Colophon: This edition consists of 165 copies printed on velin de rives paper, of which 150 have been numbered and signed by the artist and the publisher; 15 copies marked HC have been reserved for the collaborators. Finished on the 30th of September 1969 the text was printed in Paris by the imprimerie union, and the engravings by the ateliers Leblanc. Exemplary 134.